Atlas

Policies

The same instrument produces very different outcomes in different places. The research is interested in the implementation and the enforcement, not the statute.

Extended producer responsibility
Making producers pay for what happens after sale. Long-running in Germany, newly arriving in Vietnam and India.
0 published entries
Deposit return
A refundable deposit on containers. High recovery rates, and a cost per container worth examining.
0 published entries
Volume-based pricing
Charging households for residual waste at the point of disposal, as South Korea does nationally.
0 published entries
Material restrictions
Bans and restrictions on specific materials. Widely announced, unevenly enforced, and defined by the enforcement.
0 published entries
Mandatory segregation
Requiring households to sort. The rules are the easy part; sustaining compliance for decades is not.
0 published entries
Circular procurement
Using public purchasing to create demand for secondary material, especially in construction.
0 published entries
Informal sector integration
Policies that formalise existing recovery work, and what they do to the incomes that depended on it.
0 published entries

Why the counts are zero

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