Article ID: CBB360104847

Creating Value Out of Waste: The Transformation of the Swedish Waste and Recycling Sector, 1970s–2010s (Spring 2023)

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This article examines the growth of the waste and recycling sector in Sweden since the 1970s and seeks to identify the conditions for market growth and underlying business dynamics. The article identifies a slow growth pattern at aggregate level in the 1970s, while a major shift toward higher growth rates took place only in the mid-1990s. Resembling the findings of existing studies of German and US industry counterparts, Swedish recycling companies grew larger in the 1970s and more knowledge-intensive from the 1980s. Our study concludes that the growth of the Swedish recycling industry has been driven not only by government policies addressing household waste but even more so by large manufacturing firms that have increasingly demanded more complex recycling services over time.

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Authors & Contributors
Klas Nyberg
Acland, Charles R.
Andersson, Jenny
Friedel, Robert D.
Hannah, Leslie
Hird, Myra J
Journals
Business History Review
Social Studies of Science
Technology and Culture
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
Environmental History
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
Rutgers University
Edward Elgar
Johns Hopkins University Press
Routledge
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
University of Minnesota Press
Concepts
Business history
Recycling (waste disposal)
Environment
Legislative and administrative regulations
Waste disposal
Consumers and consumerism
People
Kerr, Roy Patrick
Latour, Bruno
Marres, Noortje
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Early modern
Places
Sweden
United States
Germany
Ontario (Canada)
Europe
Italy
Institutions
Du Pont Company
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