Public Participation and Effectiveness of the no Plastic Bag Day Program in Malaysia

Asmuni, Shahariah; Hussin, Nur Bashirah; Khalili, Jamaliah Mhd; Zain, Zahariah Mohd

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.238

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“…A similar policy has been implemented in Malaysia since 2011. It is proof that the policy is effective in making consumers avoid the use of plastic bags by 52.3% in a year [2]. In the next years of implementation, the effectiveness has become steady.…”

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confidence: 92%

Local Concern on Plastic Bag Charge in Indonesia: Do we really care?

Putri¹

2018

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Postgraduate School Universitas Airlangga : "Implementation of Climate Change A

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Abstract-Indonesia is ranked second in a list of the countries which most contribute to plastic trash worldwide after China. Indonesia has restricted plastic bags in retail since March 2016, left behind by China which has already banned them since 2008. This restriction policy regulates that the retail industry charges at least $0.02 -for every single plastic bag that is used by its buyers depends on their region. This study analysed the public concerns on the implementation of a plastic bag charge policy. Public concerns on this policy were observed by analysing the largest online petition website in Indonesia. Nowadays, online petitions are the fastest media to communicate public support about some issues to the decision makers. The local concerns in each e-petition are determined by content analysis of the petition content, orientation, and its support of the environment. The local community has an enormous perspective on seeing this policy. Most of them already show this phenomenon as environmental orientation, even though there are still people who think about the economic value in the policy's trial period. There have been 5 mass petitions focused on the plastic bag charge policy. It makes up about 3.7% of the total petitions on issues of environmental health that have been posted on the e-petition website. The time that was when the petitions were issued was on the first month when the policy was executed. Not all of the petitions support the policy implementation due to the ambiguity of money transparency. Most of the petitions claimed that the regulator should increase the nominal charge. By the time the trial time of the regulations ended, the public concerns to do with this policy had decreased.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Local Concern on Plastic Bag Charge in Indonesia: Do we really care?

Putri¹

2018

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Postgraduate School Universitas Airlangga : "Implementation of Climate Change A

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“…Plastic waste takes a lot of time to degrade and contributes to air, water and soil pollution. Hence, this program discourages consumers from using plastic bags to carry item purchased in order to reduce the consumption of plastic bags [59].…”

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A Review on Managing Solid Waste Produced from Homes in Malaysia

Tang

Nirmal

Lau

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There has been a sharp rise in the rate of waste generated on a global scale, owing to a rapid growth in population and urbanization. Enormous amounts of waste are being produced yearly. To illustrate the gravity of this situation, in 2018, there was a gargantuan estimate of 85 tons of waste disposed in Malaysia. Most of this disposed waste is not properly recycled, thus making waste a prevailing global threat against mankind and the environment. Waste originates from several different sources such as residences, industries, agriculture and manufacturing plants. In this work, the writers seek to dedicate a compilation of developments in research for managing solid waste produced from homes in Malaysia. Further, the generation of solid waste from households, their characteristics and impacts are also reviewed herein. In addition, the flow of waste from the time it is produced in homes until its disposal in Malaysia will also be examined and presented. The concept of ‘3R’ is implemented to manage the waste generated. This paper attempts to examine and solve the shortcomings in past works and to pave the way for future research on the solutions to control the pollution cause by the waste produced from homes.

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“…As an illustration, the willingness to pay for green products, eventually with a price premium, is a clear manifestation of GB. It might also be expressed by the avoidance of plastic bags because this habit decreases the volume of waste and pollution (Asmuni, Hussin, Khalili, & Zain, ; Zhang & Wen, ). Finally, recycling is another typical GB, such as the separation and disposal of PET bottles in collecting or recycling centres, because it leads to a reduction of solid waste and it decreases power consumption, pollutant emissions and water pollution (Coelho, Castro, & Gobbo, ).…”

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Consumers’ evaluations of the efficiency of actions to improve environmental quality: A comparative study between Brazil and China

Mainardes

Yeh

Leal

2017

Int J Consumer Studies

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There is a gap in our knowledge about environmentally conscious consumers in industrialized economies and the desire to achieve sustainable economies. Given that most aspects of consumer behaviour are culture bound, this paper contributes by comparing consumers' evaluations of the efficiency of actions to improve environmental quality in two of the most promising industrializing consumer societies: Brazil and China. The proposed conceptual framework includes environmental concerns, perceived consumer effectiveness, green attitudes, green behaviours and external motivators as constructs to explain the perception of efficient environmental support. Field research was conducted in Brazil with 1,149 respondents, and in China with 632 respondents to test the model. The results suggested that the belief that environmental quality can be improved is directly associated with consumers' internal and external motivators. However, cultural traits drove important differences in the evaluation of the efficiency of such improvements. Specifically, Chinese people tended to rely on collective leadership to create the conditions necessary for improving environmental quality, while they remained concerned with the current status. In contrast, Brazilians accepted more personal responsibility for the results, although they face important constraints, such as the availability of products. K E Y W O R D S environmental concerns, cross-cultural comparison, green attitudes, green behaviours, perceived consumer effectiveness

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Public Participation and Effectiveness of the no Plastic Bag Day Program in Malaysia

Cited by 42 publications

References 13 publications

Local Concern on Plastic Bag Charge in Indonesia: Do we really care?

Local Concern on Plastic Bag Charge in Indonesia: Do we really care?

A Review on Managing Solid Waste Produced from Homes in Malaysia

Consumers’ evaluations of the efficiency of actions to improve environmental quality: A comparative study between Brazil and China

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