Behavioural attitudes towards waste prevention and recycling

Gilli, Marianna; Nicolli, Francesco; Farinelli, Paola

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.08.009

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“…As regards to the motivational drivers behind the observed relations, it is worth pointing out that a significant role in waste reduction behavior seems to be played by intrinsic motivations (Cecere et al, 2014;D'Amato et al, 2016;Gilli et al, 2018), environmental values in particular (D'Amato et al, 2016); and recycling behavior seems to be related to warm-glow (Halvorsen, 2008;Kinnaman, 2006), social norms (Abbott et al, 2013;Brekke et al, 2010;Halvorsen, 2008) and moral norms (Brekke et al, 2003). Our data are not suitable to identify these drivers and quantify their specific impact.…”

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confidence: 73%

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Recycling and Waste Generation: An Estimate of the Source Reduction Effect of Recycling Programs

Antoni

Marzetti

2019

Ecological Economics

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Recent analyses maintain that recycling in developed countries, being mostly the result of costly policies, may be already above its socially optimal level. These analyses in fact underestimate such level if increasing recycling not only reduces residual waste, but also total waste. We find that this is the case: a 10% increase in recycling rate is associated with a 1.5-2% decrease of total urban waste. This effect is largely attributable to curbside collection programs, whose adoption increases recycling rates by 8-14% and reduces waste generation by about 4%. This paper contributes to the literature on the relations between waste and recycling by providing estimates of the source reduction effect of recycling policies and pointing out the important role played in it by curbside collection programs.

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confidence: 73%

“…D'Amato et al (2016) show that the social norms affect recycling behavior while environmental values tend to enhance waste reduction. On the effect of motivations on waste management behavior see alsoCecere et al (2014) andGilli et al (2018) …”

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Recycling and Waste Generation: An Estimate of the Source Reduction Effect of Recycling Programs

Antoni

Marzetti

2019

Ecological Economics

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“…Next, the measures targeting development of knowledge and skills through practical experiences are valuable in the development of the recycling behavior, which is in line with the findings of the study by Oztekin et al (2017) who see the past behavior as an important predictor of recycling [69] and connectedness to nature as significant for environmental education [70,71], but it is essential to integrate motivational measures to determine the educational facilitators to teach about it. Others have also shown that intrinsic and extrinsic motivations are very relevant in improving recycling behavior [72]. So, further research is encouraged to determine the motivational determinants and their predictive capacity in environmental education.…”

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Competitive Development Tools in Identifying Efficient Educational Interventions for Improving Pro-Environmental and Recycling Behavior

Popescu

Rusu

Dragomir

et al. 2019

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Daily life in today’s dynamic world requires fast adaptation of people’s behavior to new challenges emerged from environmental, health, urban housing, transportation, etc. problems. A strong and complex tool in changing behaviors, education consumes significant resources and requires time for effective impact. The present study proposes a roadmap, integrating advanced methods for industrial competitive development (QFD) in configuring efficient educational interventions for changing people’s behavior on special thematic areas, such as environment and recycling. A literature review on applicable behavioral theories led to more than 30 behavioral factors (constructs) targetable by education, their specific impact evaluation being the subject of a survey among education professionals. Finally, to reach a mapping of efficient interventions with low costs, high impact and fast results criteria, educational interventions and behavioral factors were correlated by the QFD method on three dimensions addressing: teachers and trainers, contents and tools, respectively the national & institutional level. The current research results are focused particularly on changing recycling behaviors, but the overall concept and methodology can be expanded to incorporate any preoccupation in the areas of environment and health, as long-term drivers of public well-being.

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“…All of these indicators help evaluate the environmental impact of the systems in relation to global warming. Waste reduction and recycling is another important category of environmental impacts, see (Gilli et al, 2018). The papers and publications mentioned above focus exclusively on one of the indicators; however, this may significantly distort final results.…”

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“…Prevention of waste production and recycling is usually taken into account very generally in most of the studies that determine the means for change, i.e. assessment of main factors using regression in (Gilli et al, 2018). However, there is not a quantification of links between economic factors and real data about waste production and its management.…”

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Pricing and advertising strategies in conceptual waste management planning

Šomplák

Kůdela

Šmejkalová

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The paper presents a new model for integration of circular economy strategies into the municipal solid waste management. The goals are to reduce the waste produced, recycle at the highest rate as possible (material recovery) and to use the resultant residual waste for energy recovery. Such a strategy utilizes both pricing and advertising principles in the mixed integer linear programming model while accounting two criterions-assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) and cost minimization. The aim is to design the optimal waste management grid to suggest a sustainable economy with environmental concerns. The government, municipalities and/or authorized packaging company decide about the investments to the propagation of waste prevention and to advertising of waste recycling, while investors decide about new facility location and technological parameter. The availability of waste is projected in pricing method as well as in the location of the facility. The mathematical model will consider randomness in the form of waste production. The suggested non-linear functions of pricing and advertising are replaced by piecewise linear approximation to reduce computational complexity. The proposed multi-objective model is applied in a case study for the Czech Republic in the area of waste treatment infrastructure planning to support decision-making at the micro-regional level. The integration of circular economy principles, considering also the total amount of produced GHG, revealed the existing potential in waste prevention. On the other hand, the increase of recycling is limited, landfills are not supported and the energy recovery is preferred. However, the planning of the complex system relies on the decision-maker.

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Behavioural attitudes towards waste prevention and recycling

Cited by 57 publications

References 35 publications

Recycling and Waste Generation: An Estimate of the Source Reduction Effect of Recycling Programs

Recycling and Waste Generation: An Estimate of the Source Reduction Effect of Recycling Programs

Competitive Development Tools in Identifying Efficient Educational Interventions for Improving Pro-Environmental and Recycling Behavior

Pricing and advertising strategies in conceptual waste management planning

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