Community learnings through residential composting in apartment buildings

Christie, Belinda; Waller, Vivienne

doi:10.1080/00958964.2018.1509289

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“…This study attempted to integrate TIB and environmental psychology perspectives to examine emotional aspects (anticipated guilt), social aspects (sense of community), perceived consequences (awareness about consequences), external barriers (perceived busyness), and 3Rs. Prior literature has examined the significant role of food waste drivers such as anticipated guiltiness [ 83 , 84 , 85 ], awareness of consequences [ 86 ], sense of community [ 87 , 88 ] and environmental knowledge [ 47 ]. In the current study, there are four determinants of waste reduction behaviors.…”

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Sustainability of Household Food Waste Reduction: A Fresh Insight on Youth’s Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors

Attiq

Chau

Bashir

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The sustainability of food waste is one of the most important contemporary economic, social, and environmental issues that encompasses useful academic, practical, and policymaking implications. Under the domain of sustainability, food waste is a serious global challenge with a growing public, political, and corporate concern. Existing literature regarding the sensitization of consumers and the promotion of waste cautious behaviors still has much room for improvement in household waste. To bridge the gap in the literature, this study identifies and examines determinants of young consumers’ food waste reduction behavior in households. Using a sample size of 391 young consumers of household food products from Pakistan, a full-scaled administrative survey is conducted, and our hypotheses are empirically tested by using the PLS structural modeling equation. Our findings reveal significant impacts from both cognitive and emotional aspects on sustainable food waste reduction behavior. Our results have several important implications for policymakers and all the stakeholders, especially for marketers, including advertising strategies, policies to mitigate the impact of food waste, and the development of educational programs related to food waste.

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Sustainability of Household Food Waste Reduction: A Fresh Insight on Youth’s Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors

Attiq

Chau

Bashir

et al. 2021

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“…Christie and Waller [31] reported on the positive use of face-to-face contact when introducing communal composting in flats in Australia, and other studies have highlighted the positive impact of personal contact when introducing food waste collections in flats in China [17,18]. Studies have highlighted that, for a recycling scheme to be successful in social housing, close consultation among residents, housing management, local authority officers, and contractors is required.…”

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“…The intervention aimed to improve the accessibility of services [11,13,14,22,23] by using a collaborative approach with the residents and the wider eco-system [21,24,32,34] to affirm their important role in waste management. It aimed to build social cohesion in order to overcome the social challenges identified by the literature [26,27] and it integrated interactive face-to-face engagement [17,18] with residents on an ongoing basis [31,32].…”

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“…The workshops provided a platform for disseminating important information on waste and stimulating discussion on the waste services available at the site. Similarly to Christie and Waller [31], the idea was to provide an informal social event in order to help foster a sense of community and give residents a platform to contribute to change in a welcoming environment.…”

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An Evaluation of Interventions for Improving Pro-Environmental Waste Behaviour in Social Housing

Woodard

Rossouw²

2021

Sustainability

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Recycling levels have been stagnating for a decade in England. Over the last 2 years, 39% of local authorities have seen a reduction in their recycling rates. Social housing has historically been neglected in waste service provision and literature. Housing associations own 2.5 million dwellings, representing 10% of all housing stock in England. Improvements to waste services and increased resident engagement in social housing could address stalling recycling levels and contribute to the aim of the national waste strategy of moving towards a circular economy. This paper presents the results of engagement with housing association residents across 24 sites in England. Following community engagement workshops, a range of resident-led interventions were implemented, including improvements to recycling services and installation of onsite food waste composters. An inclusive resident engagement programme bespoke to each site was pioneered, including regular feedback on waste reduction and recycling performance. The impact of the project was evaluated using mixed methods, including monitoring of recycling levels and resident and stakeholder surveys. The interventions stimulated behaviour changes, leading to increased recycling rates (+10.4% per site compared to baseline), waste reduction (0.4 kg per flat per week compared to baseline), increased recycling quality, and social cohesion. The research outcomes provide a model for improving waste management in social housing globally.

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“…Furthermore, even though CTN was used as a predictor of PEB in most of the articles, PEB was examined as a predictor of CTN in certain articles. For example, Christie and Waller [62] explored residents' experiences of participating in on-site composting (interpreted as PEB). With a combination of observation, interviews and focus groups, they found that involvement in composting increased the feelings of being connected to nature of some participants and added to their desire to create positive changes towards more sustainable surroundings.…”

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A Review of the Concepts and Measurements for Connection to Nature and Environmentally Responsible Behaviour—a Call for Research on Human-Forest Relationships

Häyrinen

Pynnönen

2020

Curr Forestry Rep

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Purpose of Review The review examines recent scientific discussion on the concepts and measurements of human connection to nature (CTN) and pro-environmental behaviour (PEB). In addition to that, we explore the environmental contexts in which study populations are exposed to nature or nature experiences, particularly the contexts in which forests emerge from these studies, and lastly outline gaps in research. Recent Findings Outlining the association between CTN and PEB has been widely researched over the past 5 years. The concepts and measurements referring to these terms vary, but a few commonly used concepts were identified. The review classifies the approaches used for exploring the relationship between CTN and PEB into four categories. The review indicates that the interconnection between CTN and PEB is mostly studied as a part of the wider concept. Approximately half of the reviewed articles explored the actual exposure to some natural environment or nature activity either directly or indirectly. Forests only played a small role as a natural environment in the reviewed articles. Summary Forests appear to be of very little weight or under-represented in CTN and PEB literature as an explicitly identified natural environment. Results also indicate that the human-forest relationship has not been defined precisely in empirically based scientific literature. The paper discusses implications for the future research focusing on emphasizing the role of forests as natural environments in the research of CTN and PEB.

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Community learnings through residential composting in apartment buildings

Cited by 15 publications

References 46 publications

Sustainability of Household Food Waste Reduction: A Fresh Insight on Youth’s Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors

Sustainability of Household Food Waste Reduction: A Fresh Insight on Youth’s Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors

An Evaluation of Interventions for Improving Pro-Environmental Waste Behaviour in Social Housing

A Review of the Concepts and Measurements for Connection to Nature and Environmentally Responsible Behaviour—a Call for Research on Human-Forest Relationships

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