An analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industry

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dc.contributor.advisorVisser, Martineen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorGrybowski, Lukaszen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBlack, Daviden_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-14T12:49:09Z
dc.date.available2016-09-14T12:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractPolyethylene terephthalate (PET) is widely used in the manufacture of food and beverage containers, in addition to a variety of fibres. PET is considered to be 100% recyclable and can be recycled into a number of different end-use streams: bottle-to-bottle; bottle-to-foodgrade, or bottle-to-fibre. In South Africa, the PET Recycling Company (trading as PETCO) was established to avoid the possibility of government-imposed punitive legislation and to alleviate the impact of PET-based litter. PETCO generates revenue through the collection of voluntary levies from PET manufacturers and supports the recycling of PET through the administration of recycling subsidies and the unlocking of constraints in the PET recycling value chain. This study sets out to describe the PET recycling industry and empirically assess the effectiveness of PETCO's recycling subsidies through regression analysis. As a background to the regression analysis, the study builds the theory behind production and cost function analysis (in addition to the associated duality theory). However, due to the combination of the research question and the limited data availability, an alternative model was adopted, in order to explain as much variation in production tonnages as possible.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBlack, D. (2016). <i>An analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industry</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21744en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBlack, David. <i>"An analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industry."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21744en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBlack, D. 2016. An analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industry. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Black, David AB - Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is widely used in the manufacture of food and beverage containers, in addition to a variety of fibres. PET is considered to be 100% recyclable and can be recycled into a number of different end-use streams: bottle-to-bottle; bottle-to-foodgrade, or bottle-to-fibre. In South Africa, the PET Recycling Company (trading as PETCO) was established to avoid the possibility of government-imposed punitive legislation and to alleviate the impact of PET-based litter. PETCO generates revenue through the collection of voluntary levies from PET manufacturers and supports the recycling of PET through the administration of recycling subsidies and the unlocking of constraints in the PET recycling value chain. This study sets out to describe the PET recycling industry and empirically assess the effectiveness of PETCO's recycling subsidies through regression analysis. As a background to the regression analysis, the study builds the theory behind production and cost function analysis (in addition to the associated duality theory). However, due to the combination of the research question and the limited data availability, an alternative model was adopted, in order to explain as much variation in production tonnages as possible. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - An analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industry TI - An analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industry UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21744 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/21744
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBlack D. An analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industry. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21744en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherApplied Economicsen_ZA
dc.titleAn analysis of subsidies within the plastics recycling industryen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMComen_ZA
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