Procurement innovation for a circular economy of construction and demolition waste: Lessons learnt from Suzhou, China

Bao, Zhikang; Lu, Weisheng; Chi, Bin; Yuan, Hongping; Hao, Jian Li

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.08.031

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“…Off-site recycling is usually more environmentally friendly, as all the processes are conducted in a controlled environment ( Earle et al, 2014 ). However, they also present certain weaknesses, such as huge investment and high demand for land occupation, high transportation cost, and its associated nuisance ( Bao et al, 2019 ). In contrast, on-site recycling can offer a series of benefits, including but not limited to easier management, lower investment, reduced transportation costs as well as less dust and noise pollution to the surrounding communities ( Bao and Lu, 2020 ).…”

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Implementing on-site construction waste recycling in Hong Kong: Barriers and facilitators

Bao

Lee

2020

Science of The Total Environment

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Construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling constitutes an indispensable component in the overall waste management strategy. Unlike the traditional recycling approaches whereby C&D waste is transported to off-site facilities for treatment, construction managers are actively exploring the possibility of on-site recycling where C&D waste is treated directly at source. This study reports the barriers and facilitators of implementing on-site C&D waste recycling by contextualizing it in Hong Kong. It does so by adopting a mixed-method approach combining case study, site visits, and interviews. It is discovered that the barriers include (1) site space constraints, (2) narrow window of opportunity to trade recycled products, (3) vulnerable business case, (4) lack of support from off-site recycling, and (5) lack of government policy support. A series of facilitating measures are also proposed, including (1) developing customized on-site recycling equipment, (2) establishing a demand-supply information-sharing platform, (3) developing more thriving off-site recycling, and (4) providing more government support. This study probes into the real-life on- and off-site waste recycling practices in Hong Kong's prominent C&D management system. It can also provide useful references for others in developing their own C&D waste recycling strategies by rationally deploying on- and off-site recycling.

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Implementing on-site construction waste recycling in Hong Kong: Barriers and facilitators

Bao

Lee

2020

Science of The Total Environment

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“…As such, in many cases, shopping is a major reason behind travel [7]. More importantly, it is especially essential in the current era of materialism and consumption [6][7][8][9].…”

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Impacts of Tourism Demand on Retail Property Prices in a Shopping Destination

2020

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Understanding the relationship between tourism demand and retail property prices is of great significance to tourist destinations, especially shopping destinations. The increase in tourism demand may alter the implicit prices of certain retail property characteristics (e.g., age and accessibility to transit). This study examines how tourism demand (measured by tourist volume) affects retail property prices in the tourist precinct of a shopping destination, namely Hong Kong. The implementation of the policy Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) in 2003 in Hong Kong has substantially increased tourist shoppers from Mainland China, and it is used as a quasi-natural experiment of the increased tourist volume. Spatial and non-spatial hedonic pricing models are developed based on the ground-floor retail property transaction data of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong before and after the IVS (1993–2011). The findings of this study are as follows. (1) Accessibility to transit has a larger positive price effect after the implementation of the IVS. (2) The implicit price of accessibility to accommodation facilities is not significantly altered by the implementation of the IVS. (3) Age has a larger negative price effect after the implementation of the IVS. The first two outcomes are related to the economic concerns of tourist shoppers, while the last can be explained by their hometown experience. Finally, practical implications are discussed.

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“…Twenty-four students who chose the class with the smallest random number (curricular number: B3709) were selected to form four focus groups for a semi-structured interview. The semi-structured interview was based on a predetermined set of open questions (see Table 2 ) and helped obtain the necessary information in a short period [ 29 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 ]. The selection of questions was predominately informed by existing literature on carbon labeling and environmental sustainability (e.g., [ 13 ]).…”

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University Students’ Purchase Intention and Willingness to Pay for Carbon-Labeled Food Products: A Purchase Decision-Making Experiment

Zhao

Yang

Liu

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Carbon labeling describes carbon dioxide emissions across food lifecycles, contributing to enhancing consumers’ low-carbon awareness and promoting low-carbon consumption behaviors. In a departure from the existing literature on carbon labeling that heavily relies on interviews or questionnaire surveys, this study forms a hybrid of an auction experiment and a consumption experiment to observe university students’ purchase intention and willingness to pay for a carbon-labeled food product. In this study, students from a university in a city (Chengdu) of China, the largest carbon emitter, are taken as the experimental group, and cow’s milk is selected as the experimental food product. The main findings of this study are summarized as follows: (1) the purchase of carbon-labeled milk products is primarily influenced by price; (2) the willingness to pay for carbon-labeled milk products primarily depends on the premium; and (3) the students are willing to accept a maximum price premium of 3.2%. This study further offers suggestions to promote the formation of China’s carbon product-labeling system and the marketization of carbon-labeled products and consequently facilitate low-carbon consumption in China.

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Procurement innovation for a circular economy of construction and demolition waste: Lessons learnt from Suzhou, China

Cited by 169 publications

References 44 publications

Implementing on-site construction waste recycling in Hong Kong: Barriers and facilitators

Implementing on-site construction waste recycling in Hong Kong: Barriers and facilitators

Impacts of Tourism Demand on Retail Property Prices in a Shopping Destination

University Students’ Purchase Intention and Willingness to Pay for Carbon-Labeled Food Products: A Purchase Decision-Making Experiment

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