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- 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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