The assessment of households' recycling costs: The role of personal motives

Berglund, Christer

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.03.005

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“…The importance of non-monetary incentives in waste recycling has already been emphasized in literature (Berglund, 2006;Brekke et al 2003Brekke et al , 2007Brekke et al , 2010Hage et al 2009;Halvorsen, 2008). Kinnaman (2006) indeed suggests that the benefits of recycling households are increased more by warm-glow incentives than by unit-based pricing, to the point that households may even be willing to pay for the opportunity to recycle 7 .…”

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Waste prevention and social preferences: the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations

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Mancinelli

Mazzanti

2014

Ecological Economics

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Though reduction is at the top of the waste management hierarchy, EU policies have historically introduced waste management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in landfills. Only very recently have EU policies started defining targets for waste reduction. Against this backdrop, we aim to examine whether individual behavior towards waste reduction is more strongly driven by extrinsic motivations such as social norms, or intrinsic motivations such as purely altruistic preferences. We exploit a large new survey that covers thousands of individuals for the EU27, to test the role of motivations when people are faced with collective management of the public good. We find that diverse motivations are behind the reduction of food waste: extrinsic motivations nevertheless increase the likelihood of producing more waste. Green consumption / recycling-oriented attitudes and individualistic thinking about waste management relate to 'waste producers'. This shows that in order to go beyond a recycling-oriented society towards reduction of the source of waste externality -its generation -the nature of social preferences matters. Behavior patterns leading to waste reduction are less socially oriented, less exposed to peer pressure and more reliant upon purely 'altruistic' social attitudes. Policy makers should learn from the relevant insights on social behavior we here address if our societies aim to fully integrate the idea of waste reduction alongside recycling in the future.

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Waste prevention and social preferences: the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations

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Mancinelli

Mazzanti

2014

Ecological Economics

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“…5, the results regarding influence of education level on recycling are not consistent. Correlations have been reported with years of schooling and future higher education [9,21,22,25,26,29,30,33,35], but a [7,24,31,32,38,39].…”

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“…5). Those reporting any dependence between gender and recycling behaviour include Barr et al [22], Meneses and Palasio [24], Saphores et al [25], Ekere et al [38], and the majority have found no significant correlation [7,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33].…”

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“…4). Some authors have found a relationship between recycling behaviour and age [10,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29], but others report no significant correlation [4,7,[30][31][32][33].…”

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“…Generally, they conclude that individuals will recycle if they feel personal responsibility to do so. According to Berglund [32], moral motives significantly lower the cost associated with household recycling efforts and, as a result, increase recycling participation. Meneses and Palacio [24] found that persons with negative motivation towards recycling had greater barriers to recycling than those who were less negatively motivated.…”

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The assessment of households' recycling costs: The role of personal motives

Cited by 140 publications

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