Evaluating the employment impact of recycling performance in Florida

Yuan Liu; Sunjoo Park; Hongtao Yi; Richard Feiock

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.10.025

Evaluating the employment impact of recycling performance in Florida

Yuan Liu, Sunjoo Park, Hongtao Yi, Richard Feiock

School of Public Administration

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Abstract

Recycling solid waste not only produces environmental and health benefits, but also generates economic benefit. This paper empirically evaluates the employment impact of Florida county recycling programs from 2000 through 2011, applying a fixed effects regression model. The results indicate that a one percentage point increase of county recycling rate leads to a 0.4% job growth in overall solid waste and recycling industry. However, the impact of recycling programs on green jobs are not uniform across the recycling subsectors: the effect is concentrated in the recycling processing sector while the solid waste collection sector and scrap materials businesses are unlikely to be influenced by county's recycling performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	283-290
Number of pages	8
Journal	Waste Management
Volume	101
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2019.10.025
State	Published - 1 Jan 2020

Keywords

Circular economy
Green economic development
Green job
Recycling
Solid waste management

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