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Research on derivation of optimal recycling rate

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25380289
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Economic policy
Research InstitutionUniversity of Toyama

Principal Investigator

Yamamoto Masashi  富山大学, 研究推進機構極東地域研究センター, 准教授 (30458947)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SHINKUMA Takayoshi  関西大学, 経済学部, 教授 (80312099)
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywordsリサイクル / 一般廃棄物 / 家庭ゴミ / 廃棄物処理 / 廃棄物
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research analyzed two topics. The first one was to identify what rate was optimal for household's recycling rate. In this analysis, we succeeded in deriving the cost of household to sort their waste by the function of unit price of waste discharge. This enables us to calculate the social cost of recycling. Simulating the recycling rate which minimized this social cost, we found the optimal recycling rate is far smaller than 100%.

The second one was to identify if an excess capacity of incinerators "competed" against recycling activity. Through theoretical analysis, we found that, depending upon the elasticity of demand, the subsidy to build incinerators, which have seen a lot in Japan, could worse off the economic welfare. Our empirical result supported that the more there is incinerator's capacity in a local authority, the less the recycling rate is.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2015 2014 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Bucknell University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The Socially Optimal Recycling Rate: Evidence From Japan2014

    • Author(s)
      Thomas Kinnaman, Takayoshi Shinkuma, Masashi Yamamoto
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

      Volume: 68 Issue: 1 Pages: 54-70

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jeem.2014.01.004

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Dilemma between two proper treatment of waste2015

    • Author(s)
      Masashi Yamamoto
    • Organizer
      The 62th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International
    • Place of Presentation
      Portland, USA
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-13
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Dilemma between two proper treatment of waste2015

    • Author(s)
      Masashi Yamamoto
    • Organizer
      5th East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics Congress
    • Place of Presentation
      Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-06
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] he Effect of Extended Producer Responsibility on the International Trade of Waste. In Shunsuke Managi (Ed.), Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia2015

    • Author(s)
      Takayoshi Shinkuma, Hajime Sugeta
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Optimal Trade and Recycling Policies in Vertically Related Markets. In: Thomas C. Kinnamann and Kenji Takeuchi (eds) Handbook on Waste Management2014

    • Author(s)
      Hajime Sugeta, Takayoshi Shinkuma
    • Total Pages
      41
    • Publisher
      Edward Elgar
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2022-02-03  

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