Examining the Moderating Role of Perceived Lack of Facilitating Conditions on Household Recycling Intention in Kano, Nigeria

Abstract

Improper handling of household solid waste causes problems that affect public health and the environment, as well as the aesthetic nature of cities. This paper aims to determine if the theory of planned behavior (TPB), and its extended version can be used to predict household recycling intention (RI), and whether perceived lack of facilitating conditions have a moderating role on households' RI in Nigeria. Data from a sample of 393 households from Kano metropolis Nigeria were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The result reveals that the TPB Model predicts households RI in Nigeria and explains 42% of the variance in RI. Attitude is the most important predictor of RI in the TPB model (β = 0.593, p = 0.000). However, after personal norm (PN) was added into the model, the variance in RI increases to 58% and PN becomes the most important predictor of RI in the extended TPB model (β = 0.496, p = 0.000). Perceived lack of facilitating condition was found to have a significant moderating effect on households' RI. Finally, our findings show that providing households with recycling facilities and local collections holds great promise for improving households' intention to recycle.

Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

“…Apart from recycling intentions, past recycling behaviours should also be studied to observe possible gaps between intentions and behaviours. A number of studies also added constructs such as 'personal norm', 'awareness of consequences', 'environmental knowledge', 'past behaviour', 'self-identity', and 'situation factors' to the extended TPB frameworks to explain individuals recycling intentions, which appeared to be relevant [54,55,57,[83][84][85]. Therefore, future studies could use such extended TPB models to predict young citizens' recycling intentions and behaviours in India.…”

Relationships Among Knowledge, Attitude and Behavioral Intention of Waste Management Technology

“…The previous research was conducted at the University of South Florida [16] and the University of Twente [17] suggests that knowledge does not correlate with intention. Prior study found that attitudes associated with intention (r = 0.213, p <.000) [18]. Also, Gadiraju suggested that attitude was related to intention (r = 0.310, p <0.01).…”

Procedural Information and Behavioral Control: Longitudinal Analysis of the Intention-Behavior Gap in the Context of Recycling

“…Research that accounts for attitude toward recycling, recycling-related subjective norm, and perceived recycling control can help explain why individuals recycle [19]. Other scholars have explained recycling behavior in terms of implementation intention.…”

“…Studying behavioral control is important in the context of recycling because perceived behavioral control can be an important determinant of behavioral intention [20,21], and individuals are less likely to act on their intentions when infrastructure is lacking or they are unsure how to use it [1,19,22]. It follows that individuals will have stronger intentions to recycle and be more likely to actually recycle if they have good understanding of how and where to recycle.…”

“…It makes sense that this effect would tend to arise only when individuals have access to recycling facilities. For instance, the effect of attitude and subjective norm on recycling behavior diminishes when individuals perceived recycling facilities to be lacking [19]. Certainly, procedural information seeking will be unrelated to recycling behaviors if there are no recycling facilities.…”