One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: A comparative analysis of property rights in solid waste

Danese, Giuseppe

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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: A comparative analysis of property rights in solid waste

2017Working paper

dc.contributor.author	Danese, Giuseppe
dc.date.accessioned	2018-07-05T16:17:47Z
dc.date.available	2018-07-05T16:17:47Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	Previous literature has studied waste picking as an economic, social and environmental phenomenon of great importance in countries characterized by ineffective waste collection and recycli ng programs. The legal foundations of waste picking have, however, received little scholarly attention. Surveys conducted with waste pickers from 5 cities (Bogotá, Pune, Belo Horizonte, Durban, Nakuru) find that existing, and often hostile, regulations and competition from new entrants are key concerns for the waste pickers. In this paper, I argue that a ny system of legal rules that tries to exclude the waste pickers from the waste value chain results in h igh transaction costs and risks further aggravating existing social injustices. Several inclusive property right regimes are conceivable, from waste picker ownership of waste to a res nullius (nobody’s property) regime complemented by a right of first possession . R es nullius create s incentives for the stake holders of waste to specialize in different segments of the collection and recycling chain. P o ssible drawbacks of this regime are dissipating rents because of open access to waste .	pt_PT
dc.description.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	pt_PT
dc.identifier.citation	Danese, G. (2017) One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: A comparative analysis of property rights in solid waste. Working papers: Economics. N.º 2, 34 p.	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/25177
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	no	pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://ideas.repec.org/p/cap/wpaper/022017.html	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Property rights	pt_PT
dc.subject	Solid waste	pt_PT
dc.subject	Waste pickers	pt_PT
dc.subject	Informal economy	pt_PT
dc.subject	resnullius	pt_PT
dc.title	One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: A comparative analysis of property rights in solid waste	pt_PT
dc.type	working paper
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.title	Working papers: Economics	pt_PT
rcaap.rights	openAccess	pt_PT
rcaap.type	workingPaper	pt_PT