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Direct linkNakajima, Nina; Vanderburg, Willem H. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2005
Product take-back (also called extended producer responsibility) has become a trend for dealing with the garbage resulting from categories of problematic products. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is one such category with computer equipment being of particular significance. This article provides a description of the European…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Hazardous Materials, Electronic Equipment
Harrison, Kathryn; Antweiler, Werner – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
In the last decade, voluntary efforts by firms to reduce their environmental impacts have received increasing attention from both policymakers and scholars. This article discusses polluters' incentives to reduce their releases. In particular, using data from Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory, it examines the impacts of conventional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Regulation, Accountability, Pollution
