Abstract

VALDIVIA-ALCALA, Ramón; ABELINO-TORRES, Gonzalo; LOPEZ-SANTIAGO, Marco A.  and  ZAVALA-PINEDA, María J.. Economic valuation of urban waste recycling. Rev. Chapingo ser. cienc. for. ambient [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.3, pp.435-447. ISSN 2007-4018.  https://doi.org/10.5154/r.rchscfa.2010.07.044.

In the present study, using the referendum contingent valuation method (RCVM), an economic valuation was carried out to implement a recycling system. For this, the population of the municipality of Texcoco was taken as a case study, to which a simple random sampling method, at the level of household, was applied with a confidence level of 95 %, resulting in a total sample of 402 households. Results show that more than 90 % of heads of households are aware of the garbage problem. However, 70 % of respondents know very little about recycling and almost 100 % of them think it is necessary to set up a recycling system. Moreover, by applying the RECVM, and by adjusting a binary LOGIT model, a weekly willingness to pay (WTP) per house hold equal to $27.18 was estimated. As a result, total benefits of $1,295,915 were calculated per week. The model coefficients were estimated using maximum likelihood.

Keywords : Referendum contingent valuation method; LOGIT; willingness to pay; consumer surplus; maximum likelihood.

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