Environmental economics measures for pollution control

1. Environmental Economics
Rahul K Kamble

2. Pollution control methods
• Scientific
• Technological
• Managerial
• Policy
• Legislation
• Economics

3. Public disclosure and industrial rating
• Public disclosure is a political act and media
event
• Attempted in Indonesia, by BAPEDAL
• The exercise is called as PROPER (Programme
for pollution control, evaluation and rating).
• Rates each polluter on its environmental
performance.
• PROPER was implemented in 1995

4. • Rated 187 plants with water pollution aspect
• The pilot group includes medium- and large
scale polluters
• Five top green ranked plants were
congratulated by Vice-President
• BAPADAL privately notified other plants of
their ratings and given six months to clean up
before full public disclosure.
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10. Polluter Pay Principle
• An “Accidental” success story
• By 1969 organic waster pollution  many
Dutch waterways were biologically dead.
• Together industry and households were
dumping 40 million population equivalent (PE)
waste
• PE-the average organic pollution caused by
one person in a normal household

11. • The Dutch responded with the Pollution of
Surface Wasters Act in 1970.
• This prohibited unlicensed discharges into
surface waters and imposed charges on
pollution emissions
• Industry had to pay for emissions of heavy
metals and all sectors society were assessed
for estimated organic discharges
• Rebate to small and medium enterprises if
they could prove that their emissions less than
official estimates