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Environmental decisions often impact health, yet morbidity valuation remains challenging, with current approaches like cost-of-illness (COI) measures and Quality-Adjusted Life Years failing to reflect
This paper suggests two generalizations of the deposit-refund idea. In the first, we apply the idea not just to solid waste materials, but to any waste from production or consumption including wastes