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The Polluter-Pays Principle and its Environmental Consequences for Industrial Waste Management

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The paper maintains that, as a means toward achieving the ideal of a sustainable development, industrial waste should best be regarded in business-economic terms as having the same basic status as regular products. It is shown how an approach to proportioning industrial costs to waste that is described can be applied to the Polluter-Pays Principle in a way incorporating this principle into a company's internal estimation system. In two case studies presented, use of this approach is found to generate a waste-reducing incentive through showing waste to have a negative impact on estimates of profit.

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  1. Department of Construction and Architecture, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00, Lund, Sweden

    Jan Stenis

  2. Department of Technology, University of Kalmar, SE-391 82, Kalmar, Sweden

    William Hogland

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Stenis, J., Hogland, W. The Polluter-Pays Principle and its Environmental Consequences for Industrial Waste Management. Environment, Development and Sustainability 4, 361–369 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024120026032

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