School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Waste Manag. 2021 Mar 1;122:26-35. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2020.12.027. Epub 2021 Jan 18.
In an effort to regulate waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling, the Chinese government has issued China-WEEE regulations and a fund policy. In accordance with the 2012 fund policy, the government collects funds from producers and subsidizes recycling enterprises. However, this policy has encountered difficulties. The 2016 White Paper on WEEE Recycling, Treatment and Reuse states that while the funds collected from producers were 2.61 billion Yuan, the subsidies provided to recycling enterprises were 4.714 billion Yuan, which is a gap of 2.104 billion Yuan. In addition, this policy did not incentivize producers to invest in WEEE recycling. Our paper aims to answering the following questions: (1) What is the impact of the current WEEE processing fund policy? (2) How can producers' green innovation in WEEE recycling be promoted? We use evolutionary game theory to investigate the strategies used by producers and recyclers and explore their evolutionary behaviors under two policies: the 2012 fund policy (the current policy) and the Fund Relief Policy (a newly designed policy). The results indicate that the Fund Relief Policy can motivate producers' green innovation behavior, improve the profitability of recyclers, and alleviate the financial pressure on government to a certain extent.
为了规范废旧电器电子产品（WEEE）回收利用，中国政府已经发布了中国 WEEE 法规和基金政策。根据 2012 年基金政策，政府向生产商收取资金并补贴回收企业。然而，该政策遇到了困难。2016 年《废弃电器电子产品回收处理及综合利用白皮书》指出，虽然从生产商那里收取的资金为 26.1 亿元，但向回收企业提供的补贴为 47.14 亿元，相差 21.04 亿元。此外，该政策并没有激励生产商投资 WEEE 回收。我们的论文旨在回答以下问题：（1）当前的 WEEE 处理基金政策有何影响？（2）如何促进生产者在 WEEE 回收方面的绿色创新？我们使用进化博弈论来研究生产者和回收商的策略，并探讨他们在两种政策下的进化行为：2012 年基金政策（现行政策）和基金减免政策（新设计的政策）。结果表明，基金减免政策可以激励生产者的绿色创新行为，提高回收商的盈利能力，并在一定程度上减轻政府的财政压力。
