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This chapter introduces the purpose of the book as well as the waste management system in the EU, and the concept of circular economy. The aim of the book is to offer insights about the main determinants of individual attitudes toward waste reduction and recycling. The book collects some of the main contributions of the economic literature on the topic as well as two original empirical investigations that intend to verify the role of different determinants on individuals’ waste-related behaviours, and their possible interactions. The book enriches the scarce literature on the determinants of waste behaviours and of the efficacies of waste policies and provides some important suggestion for policymaking.
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See the documentation in the ‘Sound Material-Cycle Society’, section of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment web site: http://www.env.go.jp/en/recycle/smcs/index.html.
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See for example the ‘RCRA’s Critical Mission & the Path Forward’, which is available at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) web page: https://www.epa.gov/rcra/resource-conservation-and-recovery-act-rcra-overview.
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Gilli, M., Mancinelli, S., Nicolli, F. (2018). Introduction. In: Household Waste Management. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97810-9_1
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