Environmental Behavior and Selective Waste Management in Spanish Housing

Abstract

Environmental concern has become an element of considerable significance which has guided the activity of business, and, this has translated into a change in behaviour in society, making it possible to reconcile economic and political interests with environmental ones. Thus, energy resources saving practices have been established in society reducing water consumption and waste separation. However, the latter requires greater effort to achieve this by individuals, which has led to a lower level of participation in selective waste collection programmes. For this reason, it is necessary to study the factors determining recycling behaviour, in order to try to have an influence on these in a way which assists the development of said behaviour. The solution largely depends on the consolidation of patterns of behaviour, but also on the possibilities for acting. Therefore, the objective that this work seeks is to analyse the behaviour of Spanish homes regarding managing waste; as well as to identify the variables that have a bearing on the undertaking of the same.

Understanding Firm Performance on Green Sustainable Practices through Managers’ Ascribed Responsibility and Waste Management: Green Self-Efficacy as Moderator

“…Hence, it is necessary to deepen the role of managers' environmental factors in pro-environment activities of enterprises, and to carry out research on environmental protection behavior of enterprises at the managerial level by focusing on the senior leaders. In addition, waste management is a pro-environment activity aiming at mitigation of negative impacts of waste and is argued to be one of the key driving forces for sustainable practice of enterprises [16][17][18]. However, existing literature mainly focuses on the perspective of green innovation or environmental regulation [19][20][21] while there is inadequate research regarding the influence of environmental characteristics of managers on firms' pro-environmental behavior such as waste management.…”

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“…Waste management is a proenvironmental activity aimed at limiting the negative effects of waste and is one of the primary driving factors behind businesses' sustainable practices. (Cordite et al, 2010); (Ferreira et al,2017). Based on the above, the researchers see that waste management is the efforts made to control all activities related to waste from collecting, transporting, treating, recycling, or disposing of waste to mitigate its negative effects on the environment and health, and the ability to effectively manage resources through recycling.…”

Waste Characterization Study to Mitigate a Land Based Source of River Pollution: Case of Nkam River in the Yabassi Municipality

“…There are however other aspects that can influence the success of the management system and the decision-making, but for their understanding, studies with a qualitative approach have to be conducted. For example: the change in the conduct of the generators with the purpose of minimizing waste generation and increasing recycling or the effect of education in order to understand the importance of improving the waste collection service and the disposal of MSW [18,19]. It is for this reason therefore that, the current study was carried out with the objective of characterising household waste as a land based pollutant in the three residential neighborhoods (Banya, Ndogbele and the Administrative Centre) in Yabassi of the Nkam municipality.…”