Pursuing Extended Producer Responsibility in the Context of EIPs by a Hotelling Model
Journal
Journal of Cleaner Production
Journal Issue
57
Pages
152-157
Date Issued
2013-05
Author(s)
Yenming Chen
Abstract
This paper offers a prescriptive suggestion to preserve the extended producer responsibility goal in an eco-industrial park. A novel Hotelling model in reverse trading direction is developed to examine the technology-position decisions between specialized recycling processors. We find that the notion of eco-industrial parks may not always be compatible with extended producer responsibility, which motivates producers to improve their eco-design in clean production within the context of competition. Based on our analysis, competition helps certain types of parks become self-organized such that constituent firms spontaneously improve their eco-design. If eco-design is not improved in a park due to the existing competition and production conditions, an ordinary tax-subsidy should be sufficient to make the parks self-organized. Therefore, eco-industrial parks can be re-aligned to their environmental goals.
Subjects
Eco-design; Industrial ecology; Network complexity; Reverse Hotelling's model; Technology innovation
SDGs
Other Subjects
Ecodesign; Hotelling; Industrial ecology; Network complexity; Technology innovation; Competition; Complex networks; Design; Industrial management
Type
journal article