Groups of charging for packaging waste. Are product-linked waste fees a more efficient way to reduce waste?

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Economy - Environment economics grade: 15 University of Abertay Dundee 31 entries in the bibliography language: English abstract: Whether waste is an economic good or bad is already not clear decided (although this is changing in the last years) - and probably can not as well. Instead this depends on different assumptions that have to be made and about the way how a system is installed. But as a main thesis the essay proclaims and analyses the 'hierarchy theory' which focuses on the R's - reduction reuse recycling and recovery. The priority of reduction is in most of the western countries accepted and only the transformation into practical guidelines and legislation needs to be improved sometimes as examples show.For a successful introduction of such organized waste management system it is necessary to have political support as well a support of all other groups involved. To gain this especially of consumers information and education helps. Moreover clear benefits for businesses have to be provided so that they are encouraged to invest in new technologies and innovation. Therefore related to the experiences made with the Duales System Deutschland (DSD) in Germany some practical guideline are discussed and stated.