Differentiation of determinants of low-cost and high-cost recycling

Andersson, Maria; Borgstede, Chris von

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.02.003

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“…Research in environmental psychology has stressed the role of personal norms as personal moral obligations (e.g., -what I ought to do‖) in environmental behavior, perhaps even more predominantly when it comes to recycling [39][40][41][42]. Personal norms are specific personal guidelines for appropriate behavior and may either be internalized social norms or norms derived from higher order values [36].…”

Section: Normsmentioning

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Environmental Information—Explanatory Factors for Information Behavior

Borgstede

Andersson

2010

Sustainability

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Abstract:As sustainable waste management has become an important environmental concern, growing emphasis is being given to policy tools aimed at increasing recycling behavior by households. Information is a common policy tool, but may not always reach the individuals whose behavior is being targeted, i.e., those reluctant to recycle. This study examined individual differences in attention to recycling information and demand for such information. A nationwide survey in Sweden showed that having personal norms for recycling is important when it comes to obeying and seeking environmentally relevant information. In contrast to earlier research, this study found that lack of information alone is not a significant antecedent to the intention to seek information. Personal norms were found to moderate the effect of perceived lack of information on the intention to seek information.

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Section: Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Information—Explanatory Factors for Information Behavior

Borgstede

Andersson

2010

Sustainability

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“…Thus, awareness of EMS should be regarded as one factor that affects source separation separately, and the other significant variables are also important. Since previous results (e.g., [3,13]) have shown that personal norms partly mediate other factors, such as social norms and knowledge of where to dispose of different waste fractions, an additional analysis tested whether personal norms mediate awareness of EMS. Such mediation would imply that EMS is more easily accepted by people who hold stronger environmental personal norms.…”

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“…The results regarding the unique influence of social norms on recycling are mixed and indirect in nature (for a review, see [23]), whereas personal norms are directly related to recycling behaviour [8,19,20]. The effect on recycling of personal norms also appears to be stronger than the effect of social norms [3,24].…”

Section: Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The characteristics of the sample population are listed in Table 1. The three workplaces included in the sample were chosen based on a previous study [3]. The sites differ substantially with respect to waste intensity (kg waste per employee and year) and the share of handled hazardous waste in relation to total waste amount, with the university having the lowest and the construction site having the highest total amount of waste per employee.…”

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“…However, in private households, such measures do not currently exist and instead, information provided by, for example, the municipal waste manager encourages people to perform source separation. It is well-established in environmental psychology that the use of less forceful policy tools, such as information, increases reliance on psychological factors, such as pro-environmental attitudes and norms, so that people adopt environmentally relevant behaviors (e.g., [3]). Thus, pleading for voluntary agreement relies on the knowledge and willingness to sacrifice of the individual, with the result that no recommendations or informational policies will be complied with if households are not willing to engage in source separation.…”

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Abstract:Measures that challenge the generation of waste are needed to address the global problem of the increasing volumes of waste that are generated in both private homes and workplaces. Source separation at the workplace is commonly implemented by environmental management systems (EMS). In the present study, the relationship between source separation at work and at home was investigated. A questionnaire that maps psychological and behavioural predictors of source separation was distributed to employees at different workplaces. The results show that respondents with awareness of EMS report higher levels of source separation at work, stronger environmental concern, personal and social norms, and perceive source separation to be less difficult. Furthermore, the results support the notion that after the adoption of EMS at the workplace, source separation at work spills over into source separation in the household. The potential implications for environmental management systems are discussed.

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Why do consumers recycle? A holistic perspective encompassing moral considerations, affective responses, and self‐interest motives

Onel

Mukherjee

2017

Psychology and Marketing

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In this study, the recycling behavior of consumers is examined using a model developed based on the goal framing theory (GFT). The GFT provides a holistic comprehensive framework amalgamating three popular psychological theories—theory of planned behavior (TPB), values‐beliefs‐norms (VBNs) theory, and theory on affect (TA). The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that predict recycling behavior of consumers by examining the extent to which such behavior depends on moral considerations, affective responses, or self‐interest motives. A comprehensive multivariate model with 12 formulated hypotheses is tested with structural equation modeling (SEM) using survey data from 206 individuals. The results of the study indicate that GFT is an appropriate framework in explaining recycling behavior of consumers. The findings of the combined model suggest that while values (biospheric, egoistic), environmental concern, awareness of destructive consequences, ascription of responsibility to self, personal norms, subjective norms, attitudes toward behavior, perceived behavioral control, and intention do significantly predict recycling behavior, altruistic values do not explain behavior‐related intention. In particular, perceived behavioral control seems to be the strongest predictor of recycling intention. Variables of the TPB, which assess gain motives, seem to have the greatest explanatory power for recycling behavior of consumers when the combined model is examined. However, further comparative theory analysis indicates that the recycling behavior of consumers could be better explained by the VBN theory relative to the TPB or TA. The study offers important implications pertaining to environmentally sensitive consumer behavior that would be relevant for marketing managers and policymakers.

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Differentiation of determinants of low-cost and high-cost recycling

Cited by 58 publications

References 33 publications

Environmental Information—Explanatory Factors for Information Behavior

Environmental Information—Explanatory Factors for Information Behavior

The Effects of Environmental Management Systems on Source Separation in the Work and Home Settings

Why do consumers recycle? A holistic perspective encompassing moral considerations, affective responses, and self‐interest motives

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