Domestic waste recycling, collective action and economic incentive: The case in Hong Kong

Yau, Yung

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2010.06.009

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“…Recycling schemes are also highly prone to the "free-riding" problem (Yau, 2010). Free-riders, packers/fillers that do not pay the license fees to the entities in charge of managing the logistic chain of packaging waste recycling (e.g.…”

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Economic cost recovery in the recycling of packaging waste: the case of Portugal

Cruz

Simões

Marques

2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Abstract:The recycling of packaging waste is an objective of the Community with clear targets set in the European law. The study of the institutional arrangements, recycling systems and of the costs that resulted from this environmental policy represents an ongoing effort. While each member state has currently its own packaging waste management system, there is still a lack of evidence regarding the actual costs of recycling and on how these costs have been distributed among stakeholders. This paper addresses the Portuguese framework and discusses the financial transfers undertaken by the entity that manages the Green Dot scheme. For this purpose, we use data from the entities in charge of selective collection and sorting of household packaging waste

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Economic cost recovery in the recycling of packaging waste: the case of Portugal

Cruz

Simões

Marques

2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Financial incentive policies should be made by the government to encourage more public participation for recycling (Steuteville, 1995). Economic incentives significantly influence recovery of recyclables at the household level (Yau, 2010).…”

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Determinants of Household Waste Segregation in Gorkha Municipality, Nepal

Maskey¹

2018

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Municipal solid waste management is a huge challenge specially in the developing countries. The first and fundamental step to solve the problem of municipal solid waste management is by waste segregation at source and separate collection of waste, which will help to recover recyclable materials and reduce the amount of waste that needs to be disposed at the dumpsite or landfill site. In Nepal, waste segregation at source is mandated by law but the government is not able to implement it successfully. This paper assesses the willingness of the households to practice waste segregation in future if the government enforces the law and various factors that influences the practice. Data was collected from 401 households which was selected using stratified sampling technique from all the municipal wards, the lowest administrative units in Nepal. The finding shows that about 67% of the respondents are willing to segregate waste in future if the government enforces the law. Logit regression model was employed to identify the factors that influence waste segregation practice. The significant variables found from this study are environmental awareness, waste collection service, willingness to pay, make compost, and segregated waste for a week variables, which are statistically significant at 1% level of significance. Income variable is significant at 5% level of significance and gender variable is significant at 10% level of significance. It is recommended that the concerned stakeholders should educate the households on the importance of waste segregation and consider these traits of households before enforcing the law.

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“…However, this practice is difficult to promote because its realization usually requires a major adjustment in lifestyle [10]; hence, the minimization of solid waste has received less attention than recycling practices [11].…”

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Model to Evaluate Pro-Environmental Consumer Practices

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Abstract:The consumer plays a key role in resource conservation; therefore, it is important to know consumer behavior to identify consumer profiles and to promote pro-environmental practices in society that encourage resource conservation and reductions in waste generation. The purpose of this paper is to implement a fuzzy model to evaluate consumer behavior in relation to three pro-environmental practices that can be implemented at the household level, including reductions in resource consumption (reduce), reuse of resources (reuse), and recycling (recycle). To identify socio-demographic profiles that characterize an environmentally responsible consumer, 2831 surveys were applied on a representative sample of consumers residing in a Mexican city. Fuzzy logic and neural networks were applied using a Sugeno-type subtractive clustering to determine each profile. The model input variables were socioeconomic status, age, education level, monthly income, occupation and the type of organizations with which the consumer is affiliated. The output variables were represented by pro-environmental practices. Results show that the consumer practices are performed independently of each other, with the most frequent pro-environmental consumer practices being reduction and reuse.

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Domestic waste recycling, collective action and economic incentive: The case in Hong Kong

Cited by 129 publications

References 55 publications

Economic cost recovery in the recycling of packaging waste: the case of Portugal

Economic cost recovery in the recycling of packaging waste: the case of Portugal

Determinants of Household Waste Segregation in Gorkha Municipality, Nepal

Model to Evaluate Pro-Environmental Consumer Practices

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