More than financial investment is needed: food waste recycling pilots in Shanghai, China

Wen-fang, Huang; Wang, Jie; Dai, Xiaoyan; Li, Mingran; Harder, Marie K.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.12.019

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“…• In order to encourage housewives to recycle, the government could place more recycling bins, while also increasing visual variety. • Steg and Vlek (2009), Wan and Shen (2013), Sidique et al (2010aSidique et al ( , 2010b, Huang et al (2014) proposed that communication and publicity campaigns, as well as guidance carried out in order to create awareness on recycling, encourage recycling behavior. Making use of these findings, public institutions, municipalities and nongovernmental organizations could encourage people to recycle through the use of campaigns and publicity.…”

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A proposed structural model for housewives' recycling behavior: A case study from Turkey

Arı

Yılmaz

2016

Ecological Economics

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A proposed structural model for housewives' recycling behavior: A case study from Turkey

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Yılmaz

2016

Ecological Economics

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“…The researchers chose to carry out the study in their resident city of Shanghai, for convenience and because of their access to contextual and recent historical information about related food waste sorting and other programs: food waste pilot programs had been taking place since 2011, sometimes involving the use of local volunteers [5], but almost all with poor results [1], and alternative approaches were being explored [16]. The NGO which we generally worked alongside had been allocated a large new set-thirty-of randomly chosen communities in compounds, in one of the sixteen districts, so we decided to select one of those for this project.…”

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“…Successful citywide recycling of residential waste must start with successful segregation at source-the residents need to segregate or sort their waste [1]. This practice is now well established in many countries for more valuable recyclable material streams such as plastic bottles, paper, metal cans, clean paper and cardboard, although segregation in high-density urban areas with high-rise in-depth study of one of those successful communities (N = 1600 households) indicated that the use of volunteers to stand beside newly installed communal food waste recycling bins during peak hours for three months to encourage residents and answer questions was a key element [16], contributing to role clarification, seriousness of message, interpersonal influences, and habit formation.…”

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Visual Prompts or Volunteer Models: An Experiment in Recycling

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Xiao

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Successful long-term programs for urban residential food waste sorting are very rare, despite the established urgent need for them in cities for waste reduction, pollution reduction and circular resource economy reasons. This study meets recent calls to bridge policy makers and academics, and calls for more thorough analysis of operational work in terms of behavioral determinants, to move the fields on. It takes a key operational element of a recently reported successful food waste sorting program-manning of the new bins by volunteers-and considers the behavioral determinants involved in order to design a more scalable and cheaper alternative-the use of brightly colored covers with flower designs on three sides of the bin. The two interventions were tested in a medium-scale, real-life experimental set-up that showed that they had statistically similar results: high effective capture rates of 32%-34%, with low contamination rates. The success, low cost and simple implementation of the latter suggests it should be considered for large-scale use. Candidate behavioral determinants are prompts, emotion and knowledge for the yellow bin intervention, and for the volunteer intervention they are additionally social influence, modeling, role clarification, and moderators of messenger type and interpersonal or tailored messaging.

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“…Recycling source separation projects in households are a sustainable waste management practice, though, apart from investments, all the involved actors should be effectively targeted as well in order to produce a successful food waste recycling program [13]. For example, a supervised food waste sorting program in Shanghai resulted in 70% of residential food waste being collected from apartments [14].…”

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Minimizing Onsite Organic Household Left-Over Waste: The Emission Benefits of Keeping Pet Rabbits.

Tsagarakis

2017

Recycling

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Abstract:As waste management is becoming all the more crucial, this study investigates the way in which house left-over organic waste can be better managed on site, in order to minimize the off-site treatment cost and maximize environmental performance. For the implementation of this research, a full year measurement was recorded, showing the organic leftover waste food intake of two rabbits in a household of four. The organic food, collected in two separate baskets suitable for composting-though one for rabbit intake-was 168.5 kg in total, plus 68.8 kg, which was delivered directly to the composting bin, along with food remains and rabbit feces. The results show that, over the examined year, a total of up to 0.417 metric tons of CO 2 equivalent per year emissions was avoided, suggesting that if 30 houses were to apply this methodology, one garbage truck journey per year would be saved. Overall, this study suggests that better information and environmental awareness can result in on-site, low cost, individual management of recyclable organic material, which would assist with the decrease in the cost of management, along with increased environmental performance.

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More than financial investment is needed: food waste recycling pilots in Shanghai, China

Cited by 41 publications

References 18 publications

A proposed structural model for housewives' recycling behavior: A case study from Turkey

A proposed structural model for housewives' recycling behavior: A case study from Turkey

Visual Prompts or Volunteer Models: An Experiment in Recycling

Minimizing Onsite Organic Household Left-Over Waste: The Emission Benefits of Keeping Pet Rabbits.

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