Recycling fee

From Testiwiki
Jump to: navigation, search

Scope

Recycling fee is a price that is included into the price of a product. The price is determined by the cost of recycling the product after its intended use period is finished. Recycling includes any actions that are needed to dispose of the product in a sustainable manner. The fee is mandated by the authorities. This variable is about the recycling fee as a fraction of the total price of a product.

Narrative description

As this variable is a very general decision variable, its result is not intended to be very useful. Instead, The idea of this page is to describe the basic properties of recycling fees, and the actual prices for particular fees are determined in the respective variables.

Definition

Causality

The fee depends on the type of product and the difficulty of recycling. However, as the fee in this variable intends to reflect the true cost of recycling, it is independent of issues such as fiscal interests of the country applying the fee.

Data

Formula

Unit

% of the total price

Result

0-100%