Participation in residential organic waste diversion programs: Motivators and optimizing educational messaging

Pickering, Gary J.; Pickering, Hannah M.G.; Northcotte, Ashley; Habermebl, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104807

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“…Political affiliation was a significant predictor of activism support as well as belief and trust in climate change science and experts -those with a left-leaning political affiliation were more likely to be active or passive supporters than not support climate activism. The rejection of anthropogenic climate change was best predicted by political conservatism as supported by previous research (Rutjens et al 2018, Pickering et al 2020. A similar result was found for trust in climate experts and climate science which suggests that left-leaning political parties tend to acknowledge the effects of climate change and the trustworthiness of the science and experts who study it.…”

Section: Political Affiliationsupporting

confidence: 77%

“…Several studies have explored how message framing may affect the desire or intent to adopt more environmentally sustainable behaviour (e.g. Nisbet 2009, Gifford and Comeau 2011, Hurlstone et al 2014, Stea and Pickering 2018, Pickering et al 2020. Particularly noteworthy is the report of Rabinovich et al (2012), where informative versus persuasive message frames were compared with respect to the willingness of participants to act in line with the message (encouraging specific pro-environmental behaviors).…”

Section: Current Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The results from this study should inform approaches to communicating climate change information to readers who are highly influenced by their political beliefs, pro-environmental values, and past experiences. For instance, communications targeted at politically right-leaning individuals could stress the anthropogenic origins of CC, as acceptance of this has been shown to predict specific pro-environmental actions (Pickering et al 2020) and may lead to greater uptake of climate mitigation behaviours more generally.…”

Section: Limitations and Final Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychological and experiential factors affecting climate change perception: learnings from a transnational empirical study and implications for framing climate-related flood events

Munoz-Carrier

Thomsen

Pickering

2020

Environ. Res. Commun.

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Understanding the underlying values, beliefs and emotions that influence the public's perceptions and opinions on climate change (CC) is increasingly important, as CC is a complex and politicized phenomenon. Additionally, optimizing messaging for communicating CC and encouraging greater mitigation behavior can yield significant benefits to global stakeholders. Here we evaluated the effectiveness of informative, persuasive and empathic message frames about a major climate-related local flooding event through online surveys administered to 370 adults in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada and 360 adults in Queensland, Australia. Measures of trust in climate communicators and climate science, concern over CC effects, and belief that most recent floods are due to CC were assessed before and after message exposure, along with related values, beliefs and emotions. Willingness to support pro-environmental groups was assessed as a proxy measure of behavioural intent. Cumulative odds ordinal regression and multinomial regression were used to predict group membership (no support, passive support, active support). Political affiliation, trust and belief in CC, belief in anthropogenic CC, pro-environmental values, and, in some regressions, previous flood exposure, were significant predictors of activism support. Respondents who received the empathic message frame and had low to medium pro-environmental values were more likely to believe the link between flooding and CC compared to those who received the informative message frame. These results, including the finding that some elicited emotions predicted behavioral intent, provide insight into how to construct climate information for groups with varying beliefs, values and experiences, to reduce climate skepticism and encourage pro-environmental behavior.

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Section: Political Affiliationsupporting

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Section: Current Studymentioning

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Section: Limitations and Final Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychological and experiential factors affecting climate change perception: learnings from a transnational empirical study and implications for framing climate-related flood events

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Thomsen

Pickering

2020

Environ. Res. Commun.

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“…Educational messaging (Pickering et al, 2020) and message framing (Smith and Petty, 1996) can be effective tools in eliciting desired behavior, and consumers have shown increase in intent to consume products such as organic foods or CM when they are provided with information about their benefits or when they are framed positively (Gifford and Bernard, 2006;Siegrist and Sütterlin, 2017). Message framing has also been show to assist people in adopting pro-environmental behaviors more broadly (e.g., Goldstein et al, 2008;Stea and Pickering, 2018) and in overcoming cognitive and behavioral biases (Asensio and Delmas, 2016).…”

Section: Message Frame Effectiveness and Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of Cultured Meat Among Youth and Messaging Strategies

Ruzgys

Pickering

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Cultured or "clean" meat (CM) is arguably a more ethical and environmentally sustainable alternative to farmed meat, but several potential psychological barriers exist to its acceptance in the marketplace. The perceptions of youth, as a specific consumer cohort, have not been reported to date despite young adults having more flexible dietary habits and being more likely to avoid red meat because of animal welfare and environmental concerns. Thus, youth represent a demographic that may be more accepting of CM and for whom the pro-environmental consequences of early adoption may be realized across an entire lifespan. In this study of college-aged Canadians (mean = 20 years), we examined perceptions of CM (mixed methods) and assessed the effects of educational messaging about its benefits and then naturalness framing on intention to consume it (within subjects quantitative experimental design). Results show that youth believe CM to be unnatural, ethical, and environmentally friendly, and that taste is an important element of acceptance. Linear regression showed that food disgust was a significant predictor for both intent to incorporate CM into regular diet and completely replace meat/meat substitutes with CM. In both instances, increasing food disgust was associated with lower behavioral intent. Environmental values were also a predictor for completely replacing meat/meat substitutes with CM, where it positively affected intent and showed a similar effect size to food disgust. Both messaging on the benefits of CM and naturalness framing increased intent to consume it across all three measures and by a similar magnitude [p (F) < 0.05]. These findings provide timely and actionable information for both CM producers and marketers and contribute to scholarship on the role of values and psychological traits in sustainable food choices.

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“…Organic wastes are increasingly becoming a valuable resource and have the potential to significantly spur the transition towards a sustainable and circular bioeconomy (Mahjoub and Domscheit, 2020). Organic waste diversion program participants are motivated by environmental concern (Pickering et al, 2020). Different types and sources of organic wastes are domestic or household waste, commercially produced organic waste, animal and human waste, and agricultural residue.…”

Section: Organic Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

Organic waste utilization and urban food waste composting strategies in China - A review

2021

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Food loss may occur in production, storage, transport, and processing, which are the stages of the value chain with the lowest returns. The current searching was done by the keywords in main indexing systems including PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, and Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science as well as the search engine of Google Scholar. The most important points challenging areas that represent opportunities for stakeholders to look into in China are, put in place suitable economic incentives to encourage restaurants to get more involved in the formal system, create a comprehensive regulation system to benefit all relevant stakeholders by clearly defining their respective roles and responsibilities, which is necessary for the proper functioning of the whole system. In China, the most important regulations, policies and plans are regulations on safety issues of food waste treatment, detailed countermeasures on organizing, educating, supervising, and inspecting the work on food waste reduction in China, and detailed plant for household waste collection and treatment, issued by Chinese government, state council, and ministry of environmental protection. Setting national goals, awareness-raising campaigns, strict and appropriate regulation, stakeholder engagement, biorefinery and food waste recycling to animal feed are important strategies for better waste management. The most important food waste management practices in China are source separation, animal feed, rendering, composting, co-digestion, anaerobic digestion, incineration, landfill, and etc. Understanding social factors influencing household behavior is utmost importance; public education and specific communication highly contribute to improve recycling.

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Participation in residential organic waste diversion programs: Motivators and optimizing educational messaging

Cited by 21 publications

References 37 publications

Psychological and experiential factors affecting climate change perception: learnings from a transnational empirical study and implications for framing climate-related flood events

Psychological and experiential factors affecting climate change perception: learnings from a transnational empirical study and implications for framing climate-related flood events

Perceptions of Cultured Meat Among Youth and Messaging Strategies

Organic waste utilization and urban food waste composting strategies in China - A review

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