IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-1-4020-8711-0_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Refuse Collection in Spain: Privatization, Intermunicipal Cooperation, and Concentration

In: The Waste Market

Author

Listed:
  • Germà Bel

    (Universitat de Barcelona and ppre-IREA)

Abstract

This chapter analyzes the structure and dynamics of the refuse collection service in Spain. For this purpose, a database is obtained by means of the II Survey on Local Public Services Delivery. First, results are presented concerning the structure of the refuse collection service. The analysis shows that private production is widely extended in Spain, and hybrid organizational forms such as mixed public-private firms (mixed firms henceforth) have a relevant role. Besides, almost half of the municipalities with population above 2,000 deliver refuse collection through intermunicipal cooperation. Cooperation is more frequent among small municipalities, which indicates that it is used as a formula to take advantage of scale economies. In addition, intermunicipal cooperation is more frequent in municipalities that retain public production, and this suggests that it is being used as an alternative to privatization as well. Finally, concentration is analyzed in the private market for refuse collection, and the analysis shows high degrees of market concentration. Concentration is even more intense at the regional level, and this could pose important obstacles to the competition for the contract.

Suggested Citation

  • Germà Bel, 2008. "Refuse Collection in Spain: Privatization, Intermunicipal Cooperation, and Concentration," Springer Books, in: E. Dijkgraaf & R.H.J.M. Gradus (ed.), The Waste Market, chapter 0, pages 83-100, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4020-8711-0_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8711-0_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Antonio Massarutto, 2019. "Italian waste in the circular economy: A agenda for industry regulators in Italy," ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2019(1), pages 9-48.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4020-8711-0_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.