Evaluating the employment impact of recycling performance in Florida
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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.
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CE can usually be implemented using this recycled wood as raw material for the construction industry or as input material for other sectors, contributing to generating new employment.
“CE can usually be implemented using this recycled wood as raw material for the construction industry or as input material for other sectors, contributing to generating new employment (Figure 8) [106].”
From Circular Economy of Construction and Demolition Wood Waste—A Theoretical Framework Approach (2022) · cites this paper as [106]
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- Authors
- Liu, Y., Park, S., Yi, H., & Feiock, R.
- Affiliations
- George Washington University (US)
- Kyungpook National University (KR)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Florida State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Park, Sunjoo
- Venue
- Waste Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-01
- Volume
- 101
- Pages
- 283-290
- ISSN
- 0956-053X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2981448299
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 2.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Waste Management (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Hinkley Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Policies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
- Keywords
- recycling programs, employment effects, green jobs, solid waste management, solid waste collection, scrap materials, Florida counties
- MeSH terms
- Employment, Florida, Waste Management, Recycling, Solid Waste
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