To make money for off-budget school projects, plus I suppose there was an
element of "feel good". Also, you could skip the first hour or so of
school that day if you worked on the sale, which had direct utility.
Anton Sherwood wrote:
> Rodney F Weiher wrote:
> > This really makes me feel my age
Rodney F Weiher wrote:
> This really makes me feel my age--when most economists are too young
> to remember Paper Sale days at their school, church, or Boy Scout
> troop and have to rely on the spoken record of their "elders".
I dimly remember "paper drives" at my school, circa 1966-9,
but have no
something to do with the war
effort (thats W.W.II).
"Robert A. Book" wrote:
> I actually wrote a paper on paper recycling, which I haven't
> published, but I ought to at least get in shape for the web.
>
> Jason DeBacker writes:
> > Hi all,
> > Recently,
I found it recently: Eight Great Myths of Recycling
By Daniel K. Benjamin (http://www.perc.org/publications/policyseries/recycling.php?s=2)
Steffen
Jason wrote: What are the major factors
determining the value of goods in the recyclables market?
I think a good survey about the economics of recycling you can find in Ch. 8 of
Richard C. Porter (2002): The Economics of Waste, Resources for the Future, Washington
D.C.
Steffen
your comments remind me of similar economic issues regarding water, water
conservation and lawn watering restrictions. I wrote some items that are on
my website http://rexcurry.net that you all might enjoy.
the first encourages people not to conserve water at
http://members.ij.net/rex/commentary/w
Newspapers, no -- but soda/beer can drives still exist. The strange thing
about them is that curbside recycling has made bottle bills rather
redundant (the idea was to stop littering), but hey, it's a boon for civic
service youth groups.
Nowadays, the increased supply from municipal recycli
In the town where I used to live, (Lowell, Ark.), the sanitation company
left a recycling bin at every house. At the same time, it introduced an
optional program where you paid a fee of $1 per month plus $1 per trash bag.
I recycled because it was convenient and worth my while. I put all my
I actually wrote a paper on paper recycling, which I haven't
published, but I ought to at least get in shape for the web.
Jason DeBacker writes:
> Hi all,
> Recently, I was listening to a radio program about garbage. It was an NPR
> program, so I was surprised to hear them tal
Hi all,
Recently, I was listening to a radio program about garbage. It was an NPR
program, so I was surprised to hear them talking about how recycling may not be
worth it. However, they did say that while recycling glass and plastic may not
be an efficient use of resources, the said that
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