Bel, Germà;
Buhler, Joel;
(2025)
The effect of Door‑to‑Door on separate collection of plastic
packaging: evidence from Catalonia.
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
, 27
(3)
pp. 377-403.
10.1007/s10018-024-00428-x.
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Abstract
In this article, we estimate the causal effect of the Door-to-Door waste collection policy on the collection of plastic waste in Catalonia. We use municipality-level data on the share of separately collected light packaging and apply a Difference-in-Differences framework. We find that Door-to-Door increased the share of separated light packaging by 80% compared to untreated units at the end of the sample period. Furthermore, our evidence indicates that there are no differences of Door-to-Door designs with source-separation of light packaging from other recyclable waste components compared to those where light packaging waste is collected with other materials and separated post-source. These findings highlight that Door-to-Door can be a highly effective measure to increase separate collection of light packaging, a precondition for ambitious plastics recycling goals legislated by policy makers.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The effect of Door‑to‑Door on separate collection of plastic packaging: evidence from Catalonia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10018-024-00428-x |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-024-00428-x |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Plastic waste, Door-to-Door, Recycling, Catalonia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217662 |
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