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In-Plant Costs for a Small Rural Town Recycling Plant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Richard Tichenor  and
Edmund F. Jansen Jr.
Richard Tichenor
Affiliation:
Institute of Natural and Environmental Resources, University of New Hampshire
Edmund F. Jansen Jr.
Affiliation:
Institute of Natural and Environmental Resources, University of New Hampshire
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In the past, open dump burning has been the solid waste disposal method used by many small rural towns because from a strict monetary perspective, it was the least cost alternative available to them. Now, due to environmental legislation prohibiting open dumps, they must ex-tablish new disposal facilities. The traditional environmentally acceptable alternatives of incineration and/or sanitary landfill necessarily involve increased disposal costs for these towns, with the increases being especially pronounced for towns in areas like New Hampshire where fuel oil prices are high and suitable sites for sanitary landfill are scarce.

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Resource and Environmental Economics
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 236 - 245
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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This article is based on research which was conducted under Northeast Regional Research Project NE-77, Community Services for Nonmetropolitan People in the Northeast, and which is reported more extensively in [1]. Published with the approval of the Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station as Scientific Contribution No. 781.

References

1 Tichenor, Richard, Jansen, Edmund F. Jr., and Pickering, Judy, Economics of a Small Rural Town Recycling System: Implications of a Case Study, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Report No. 43, June 1975.Google Scholar