Quantitative assessment of distance to collection point and improved sorting information on source separation of household waste

Rousta, Kamran; Bolton, Kim; Lundin, Magnus; Dahlén, Lisa

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2015.03.005

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“…The Authors observed that food and waste awareness, family and convenience lifestyles were related to FW generation, and concluded that convenience is a major issue when asking families to implement source segregation of FW at their house. Rousta et al (2015) concluded that convenience and information go together. In fact, they concluded that information stickers about food waste sorting and property close location of drop-off point reduced the miss-sorted fraction by more than 70%.…”

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“…Similarly, several studies showed that convenience in sorting, storage space at home, availability of sorting facilities, access to a curbside collection system and distance to collection points are important influential factors that can increase the recycling rate (Rousta et al, 2015;Ando and Gosselin, 2005;Barr and Gilg, 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Numerous studies, including the study on social, cultural and structural influences on the household waste recycling by Martin, Williams and Clark [30], found that convenient infrastructure impacts the waste sorting behavior. Rousta et al [75] found that lengthy distances to recycling stations commonly determine whether or not household waste is properly sorted. Similarly, Gonzalez-Torre and Adenso-Diaz [76] found that as the distance to the recycling stations decreases, the number of fractions that people sort at the household level increases.…”

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Household Waste Sorting and Engagement in Everyday Life Occupations After Migration—A Scoping Review

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The aim of this scoping review was to gain an overview of the current state of the literature on the engagement in waste sorting post migration from an occupational perspective, in the light of two aspects sustainability efforts currently face: Increased human migration and environmental degradation. Both the resource recovery and occupational science literature were reviewed and analyzed. However, despite the current lack on studies on how migrants' transition into waste sorting schemes at the household level, this scoping review was able to provide a broad picture of the engagement in daily activities that support sustainability, such as household waste sorting. Given the current initiatives to develop efficient resource recovery from waste, such knowledge contributes to efforts to engage households with different cultures and experiences in waste sorting. The results highlight the importance of future research to better understand how people who are new to waste management schemes experience these, and study the way that engagement in waste sorting shifts and transforms. This is because providing such knowledge can contribute to raising awareness of the environmental impact of waste sorting, and inform policies aimed at sustainable waste management.

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“…Many researchers have identified means of how to successfully conduct source separation in developed countries, such as in Sweden by Dahlén et al [9], and in Spain by Gallardo et al [10,11]. Meanwhile, variables that affect household separation in developed countries have also been discovered, such as the distance between containers and citizens [11,12], convenient infrastructure [5], environmental policy [13], and waste charges [14][15][16][17]. Furthermore, several studies have recognized how household waste charges affect a household's source separation behavior in developing countries, and most of the residents prefer household kitchen waste separation services with frequent, evening, plastic bag attributes and without instructors in big cities of developing countries [3,18].…”

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Model of Chinese Household Kitchen Waste Separation Behavior: A Case Study in Beijing City

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High participation rates by the public in authority projects are key in increasing resident recycling levels. Understanding waste separation behavior is crucial to achieving sustainable waste management within such household-based schemes. To identify the driving forces behind the seldom-discussed kitchen garbage separation behavior, five psychological factors, namely, attitude, perceived behavior control, subjective norms, moral norms, and responsibility denial, are established. Our data originate from a social study of Beijing citizens conducted in July 2013 (n = 362). Through structural equation modeling, we find that moral norms are consistently the most important predictor of household kitchen waste (KW) separation behavior. Subjective norms have a larger effect on such behavior than responsibility denial. Data analysis shows that perceived behavior control contributes significantly and independently to the explanation of such behavior. By contrast, attitude towards KW separation is found to be significantly negatively correlated with separation behavior. In conclusion, the model with direct and indirect effects of psychological factors explains 50.3% of the variance in household KW source separation behavior. Implications of the results for the promotion of household KW separation programs are discussed.

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Quantitative assessment of distance to collection point and improved sorting information on source separation of household waste

Cited by 108 publications

References 28 publications

Food waste generation and industrial uses: A review

Food waste generation and industrial uses: A review

Household Waste Sorting and Engagement in Everyday Life Occupations After Migration—A Scoping Review

Model of Chinese Household Kitchen Waste Separation Behavior: A Case Study in Beijing City

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