Keyword: recycling

Cash for Clunkers - Used Cars (4/14/2000)

Used cars are but one example of used goods that embody older environmentally unfriendly technology. Ideally, they should be deprived of a second life. But such capital punishment often creates hardship for people who must depend on such used goods for their livelihood.

Keywords: air pollution, clunkers, environment, Ford, material flow, pollution quotas, recycling, smog credits, used cars

Spent Guns (3/8/2001)

Recycling used guns could decrease the cost of replacing old guns for police departments, but only at the risk of increasing gun crimes by making used guns cheaper.

Keywords: criminals, externalities, externality, gun-crimes, private costs, recycling, replacement costs, social costs, used police guns