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Recycling and Waste

• New at Reason: Looking Back at the Last Year in Local Government Privatization
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 6, 2013, 4:25pm
• Solid Waste Collection Update
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Local Government Privatization
  Harris Kenny
  May 6, 2013
• Politics & Garbage Privatization in Norwalk, CT
  Leonard Gilroy
  March 21, 2012, 12:18pm
• Boulder, Colorado Weighing Banning or Taxing Disposable Bags
  Harris Kenny
  October 10, 2011, 11:00pm
• California Ordering Takeout Containers “To Go”?
  Harris Kenny
  August 31, 2011, 12:36pm
• Privatization and Public-Private Partnership Trends in Local Government
  Local Government Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010
  Leonard Gilroy, Harris Kenny, Samuel Staley and Adam Summers
  February 23, 2011
• Larimer County Officials Can’t Have Their Cake and Eat It Too
  Harris Kenny
  January 25, 2011, 7:28pm
• Plastic Water Bottles Won't Hurt You
  Ignore the junk science and follow the facts.
  John Stossel
  October 28, 2010
• Nashville Implements Trash Pricing
  Adrian Moore
  August 18, 2010, 12:08pm
• San Diego May Privatize Trash Collection
  Adrian Moore
  July 17, 2010, 4:00pm
• Sustainability Semantics
  John Locke, the U.N., and how to figure out if an acre of land would rather be a swamp or a cornfield
  Ronald Bailey
  July 6, 2010
• Talking Trash: Memphis Union Holds Anti-Privatization Town Hall, But Fed-up Attendees Say "Privatize It"
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 26, 2010, 5:10pm
• Nanny Government Monitors Household Trash Bins in U.K.
  Adam Summers
  April 30, 2010, 11:58pm
• Philadelphia Needs Competition for Waste Collection
  Leonard Gilroy
  March 9, 2010, 4:36pm
• Paper Grocery Bags Require More Energy Than Plastic Bags
  Paper vs. plastic debate shows how good environmental intentions coupled with bad information lead us astray
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  April 17, 2008
• Recycling Law Needs to be Thrown Out
  California's plastic bag bill
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  August 24, 2006
• "Pay-as-you-throw" Waste Management
  Answers to frequently asked questions
  Lisa Skumatz
  July 1, 2002
• Variable-Rate or Pay-as-you-throw Waste Management
  Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
  Lisa Skumatz
  July 1, 2002
• Future of Waste Technology
  Market forces drive changes
  Lynn Scarlett
  February 7, 2001
• Industrial Ecology on the Horizon
  The search for waste reductions
  Lynn Scarlett
  December 5, 2000
• E-Waste Politics
  Users should decide how to discard products
  Lynn Scarlett
  October 4, 2000
• Garbage Mess: Private Sector is Cleaning Up
  Private landfill management grows
  Geoffrey Segal
  September 12, 2000
• Diversion and Consolidation
  Predictions of future waste management efforts
  Lynn Scarlett
  August 4, 2000
• Privatizing Landfills
  Market Solutions for Solid-waste Disposal
  Geoffrey Segal and Adrian Moore
  May 1, 2000
• Landfill Challenges and Environmental Justice
  Landfills will face high hurdles
  Lynn Scarlett
  March 6, 2000
• Waste Minimization, Resource Conservation, and Environmental Progress
  Voluntary models of shared responsibility
  Lynn Scarlett
  December 1, 1998
• Green Hand of Progress
  Recycling often encourages inefficient resource use
  Lynn Scarlett
  January 13, 1998
• Recycling Yes, Mandates No
  Mandates are wrongheaded
  Lynn Scarlett
  September 5, 1997
• Packaging, Recycling, and Solid Waste
  Lynn Scarlett
  June 1, 1997
• Nationwide Diversion Rate Study
  Quantitative Effects of Program Choices on Recycling and Green Waste Diversion
  Lisa Skumatz
  October 1, 1996
• Solid Waste Management
  A Guide for Competitive Contracting for Collection
  Lynn Scarlett and Joe Sloan
  September 1, 1996
• How Government Building Codes and Construction Standards Discourage Recycling
  Alexander Volokh
  March 1, 1996
• The FDA vs. Recycling
  Has Food Packaging Law Gone Too Far?
  Alexander Volokh
  October 1, 1995
• Recycling Hazardous Waste
  How RCRA has Recyclers Running Around in CERCLAS
  Alexander Volokh
  October 1, 1995
• Solid Waste Recycling Costs
  Issues and Answers
  Lynn Scarlett
  August 1, 1995
• Redesigning CERCLA Liability
  An Analysis of the Issues
  Kathleen Segerson
  April 1, 1995
• Garbage by the Pound
  On the Streets
  Lisa Skumatz
  February 1, 1995
• Solid-Waste Management
  A Guide to Competitive Contracting For Collection
  Lynn Scarlett and Joe Sloan
  October 1, 1994
• Variable Rates for Municipal Solid Waste
  Implementation, Experience, Economics, and Legislation
  Lisa Skumatz
  June 1, 1993
• Mandates or Incentives?
  Comparing Packaging Regulations with User Fees for Trash Collection
  Lynn Scarlett
  May 1, 1993
• Too Little Too Late? Host Community Benefits and Siting Solid Waste Facilities
  Rodney Fort and Lynn Scarlett
  April 1, 1993
• Do We Need a Federal Garbage Man?
  Kenneth Chilton
  March 1, 1992
• Integrated Waste Management
  Rethinking Solid Waste Problems and Policy Options
  Lynn Scarlett
  May 1, 1991
• Managing America's Garbage
  Alternatives and Solutions (Working Paper)
  Lynn Scarlett
  September 1, 1989

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