Marinella Favot

TL;DR: This paper presents the business case of an Italian recycling company, Relight Ltd., and its HydroWEEE project, to recycle REEs such as yttrium, from spent lamps, and discusses the economic rationale of recycling exhaustible raw materials.

TL;DR: The results prove the theory which states that, competing consortia use the learning effects to reduce the contribution fees for producers rather than to increase the quantity collected, which remains the most important actor in WEEE collection operations.

TL;DR: The Stochastic Frontier Model allows for the identification of the optimal production function among the 20 Italian regions and it is interesting to note that there is a discrepancy between the Southern regions and the Centre regions while the Northern regions perform similarly to the Centre ones.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit the results of a choice experiment study conducted on a representative sample of 1010 Italian households, aimed at understanding the relative weights of economic and non-economic motivations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a quantitative research on price variation of the vast majority of electrical and electronic equipment sold in the EU after the introduction of producers' financial responsibility, which led some researchers to state that the costs of waste treatment are passed on to consumers in terms of higher prices.