The amount we pay for waste is appropriate
National policies on waste management in most countries around the globe have embraced the concept of Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) charging for household and industrial wastes. Consequently, variations of this scheme such as pay-per-bag or pay-per-weight have been implemented by a majority of municipalities in these nations. Unlike traditional systems that applied blanket fees often hidden in monthly taxes regardless of the waste generated, the charges on the PAYT scheme are levied depending on the volume or amount of waste generated (Cox et al., 2010). As such, PAYT employs a polluter-pays approach to waste management and thus the costs paid under this scheme ...
