Effects of an educational campaign on public environmental attitudes and behaviour in Poland

Grodzińska‐Jurczak, Małgorzata; Tomal, P.; Tarabuła-Fiertak, Marta; Nieszporek, Katarzyna; Read, Adam D.

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2005.06.010

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“…have an impact on recycling attitudes and behaviors. Similarly, in a study on the ecological attitudes and behaviors of the public in Poland, Grodzinska-Jurczak et al (2006) pointed out that as a result of the success of a training campaign, the amount of recycled waste and the number of people participating in recycling increased. Ho (2002) employed the TPB model in his comparative study examining the possible causes of recycling behaviors of households in Singapore, in which it was indicated that perceived social pressure regarding the recycling of domestic waste increased in Singaporeans who migrated to Sweden, and as a consequence, recycling intentions increased accordingly.…”

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A proposed structural model for housewives' recycling behavior: A case study from Turkey

Arı

Yılmaz

2016

Ecological Economics

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A proposed structural model for housewives' recycling behavior: A case study from Turkey

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Yılmaz

2016

Ecological Economics

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“…The result coincides with some studies that focused on providing information to enhance people's awareness and responsibility toward the environment, especially recycling behavior (e.g., Bowman et al [41], Chase et al [42], and Cotteril et al [43]). Grodzinska et al suggested that providing educational materials such as information leaflets and posters could foster environmental behavior in individuals and could increase waste recycling and participation rates [28]. In addition to information provision, feedback campaigns should be occasionally launched.…”

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“…The campaign was to promote pro-environmental behavior. The results showed an increase in participating and recycling rate [28]. Goldstein et al conducted two field experiments to examine the effectiveness of signs which requested hotel guests to reuse their towels.…”

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People’s Tendency Toward Norm-Interventions to Tackle Waste Disposal in Public Open Spaces in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Srun

Kurisu

2019

Sustainability

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Waste disposal at undesignated sites in public open spaces causes hygiene problems, city landscape deterioration, and urban flooding in many developing countries. We used different types of norms-subjective norms, perception about government pressure as one injunctive norm, and personal norms-as interventions to promote people's intentions to avoid disposing of waste in public open spaces. Six different statements focusing on these three norms were designed, and the residents' tendencies to follow each statement were investigated using 15 pair-wise comparisons in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In addition, the likely effectiveness of each statement to encourage the residents' intentions was asked of national and local government officials using the same pair-wise questions. The results showed that residents were most likely to follow an intervention focusing on personal norms, especially when touching on people's responsibility, and this was also perceived to be the most effective by the government officials. Social pressure from the government, either in a strict way with punishments or in a soft way with recommendations, were the least preferred and thought to be ineffective by both the residents and government officials in avoiding waste disposal in public open spaces. The result suggests that future policy implication should be more focused on bottom-up approaches rather than top-down counterparts. Voluntary civic engagement is more vital in dealing with waste disposal in public open space than government interventions.

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“…Environmental communication has been carried out in the domestic sphere over the past several years through best‐practices campaigns from public administration (e.g., resource efficiency; see the EU Generation Awake campaign: http://www.generationawake.eu/en) and the education system (e.g., water consumption in schools). Furthermore, domestic campaigns often achieve considerable results, such as increasing recycling rates (e.g., Grodzińska‐Jurczaka et al ). In this sense, communication to domestic users, which are used to receiving advice about best practices, seems to be a potential effective tool to improve the environmental performance of household products.…”

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Eco‐Designing the Use Phase of Products in Sustainable Manufacturing

Sanyé‐Mengual¹,

Pérez‐López²,

González‐García³

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J of Industrial Ecology

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Sustainable manufacturing has increasingly included design for environment methodologies with the objective of improving the environmental performance of products over their entire life cycles. Current European Union (EU) directives on eco-design focus on the use phase of energy-related products (ErPs). However, the maintenance of various household non-ErPs is performed with ErPs; therefore, the environmental impacts of product maintenance have an important role in the life cycle of non-ErPs. This article presents two eco-design studies where the implementation of improvement strategies of the use and maintenance phase of products had relevant results. Furthermore, environmental communication-touser strategies were important to ensure the commitment of users toward eco-efficient behaviors. First, a knife was eco-designed according to strategies which focused on materials, processing, maintenance, and communication to user. By applying eco-design in a cradle-to-consumer scope, improvements decreased the environmental impact of the eco-designed product by 30%. However, when considering the entire life cycle of the ecodesigned product, environmental impacts could be reduced by up to 40% and even up to 93% (depending on the cleaning procedure) as a result of large improvements in the maintenance stage. Second, a woman's jacket was eco-designed following multifunctionality, recycled materials, and efficient maintenance strategies. The new Livingstone jacket reached environmental improvements between 32% and 52% in the indicators analyzed. In this case, maintenance contributed between 40% and 87% of the reduction. As shown in this study, maintenance behavior and communication-to-user strategies are crucial to the eco-design of different household products (traditional vs. flexible design) and their consideration in the design process can reduce their environmental impact by between 40% and 80%. Keywords:communication to user eco-design eco-efficiency energy-related products (ErPs) industrial ecology innovation Supporting information is available on the JIE Web site

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Effects of an educational campaign on public environmental attitudes and behaviour in Poland

Cited by 62 publications

References 8 publications

A proposed structural model for housewives' recycling behavior: A case study from Turkey

A proposed structural model for housewives' recycling behavior: A case study from Turkey

People’s Tendency Toward Norm-Interventions to Tackle Waste Disposal in Public Open Spaces in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Eco‐Designing the Use Phase of Products in Sustainable Manufacturing

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