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Scenario 1: You have just been appointed the manager of your apartment complex. Outside
the apartment building there are three trash bins. You notice that the bins become filled to the
brim after only four days. (Trash pick-up is every four days at your apartment complex.)
After the trash is hauled away, you decide to put out three more bins, for a total of six (6)
receptacles. Four days after you put out the additional bins, you notice that there is trash
overflowing from all the bins. The trash is again hauled away. After another four days, the
trash bins are not overflowing, but they are once again filled to the very top. Explain what is
happening. Develop at least two, brief explanations for the phenomena observed. It is
suggested that one explanation be “ideational” (cultural) and the other based upon a “rational
choice” perspective. This scenario is an important exercise; if you think people react to ideas
more than incentives (or vice versa), your policy proposals for encouraging waste disposal
will be much different.
Scenario 2: You are the facilities management operator of a major music festival likely
to draw 30,000 people. You are responsible for making sure the festival grounds are
clean after the final act ends and the crowds go home. Think of all the resources that you
will need to do this, including physical material (cans, bags, ATVs to drive the cans and
filled bags around) and labor. Do you invest in more garbage cans (leaving fewer
resources for other things), or do you try to place fewer (and perhaps larger) garbage
cans in strategic locations? What are the costs and benefits of those different approaches?
What is the trade-off you have to make with labor? What can you do to facilitate a more
efficient clean up? Think about using moral suasion versus creating incentives. (An
alternative scenario would be to decide how to allocate waste bins in your dormitory or
fraternity/sorority house.)
Scenario 3: You have now been promoted to the post of Director Inspector of Recycling and
Trash (DIRT) in the city of Laramie, WY. Laramie is a small city surrounded by a great deal
of unmonitored country roads and wilderness easily accessible via pickup truck, SUV or ATV.
The mayor of the city is worried about the increasing price of landfill space. You need to
design a set of new regulations that will encourage people in single-family residential areas to
minimize the amount of waste they generate and to recycle (or reuse) more of the stuff and
junk they have. How do you go about this task? Answer the following questions:
a) Waste disposal fees are currently determined by volume in Laramie, WY. You are charged
a weekly flat fee for the use of a 50 gallon bin; if you exceed that volume in any one given
week residents are assessed a 10% additional fee on their bill for that week. One of your staff
proposes charging residents by the weight of their trash, thinking this will motivate people to
remove heavy items like glass and metal from the trash and put them in the recycling. For
every pound over a certain weight limit (e.g., 35 lbs), residents will be charged an extra $2
per pound. What are the pros and cons of this policy?
b) The same staff member proposes that all households be required to recycle a certain
weight of material each week. The required weight of recycling will be determined by the
square footage of the residence (the more square footage, the more the household will be
required to recycle). Alternatively, your staffer proposes determining a household’s required
recycling weight by measuring the amount a household recycles for three weeks running,
calculating the average and making that the baseline. What are the upsides and downsides of
these two policy proposals? (If you think this policy is far-fetched, some locales in Great
Britain adopted a similar policy to this and there are garbage cans that have built-in scales to
make the monitoring of weight easy for trash collectors.)
c) What policy would you suggest for encouraging more recycling and
less landfill waste? Your solution need not be based upon the
proposals above. In fact, try to think of some other policy or
incentive structure. (Is recycling always economically efficient?
What other resources are used to conserve/recycle the resources you are trying to reuse?
Consider the trade-offs.)
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