Evolutionary game analysis on behavioral strategies of multiple stakeholders in E-waste recycling industry

Wang, Zhe; Wang, Qixiang; Chen, Baixue; Wang, Yue

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104618

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“…As the topic of e-waste recycling is vast, a series of papers have addressed this problem in different countries contexts such as: Brazil [22], Canada [23], China [24][25][26][27][28], Costa Rica [29], Ghana [30,31], Greece [32], Hong Kong [24], India [33], Italy [34], Japan [26], Mexico [35,36], New Zealand [7], Nigeria [19,37], South Korea [26], Sri Lanka [38], Taiwan [26,39], United Kingdom [40], United States [41], Vietnam [42], etc., by studying various aspects related to the e-waste recycling process in the context of the behavior of the consumers' located in these areas.…”

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Determinants of Individuals’ E-Waste Recycling Decision: A Case Study from Romania

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Due to the increase of the amount of electrical and electronical equipment waste (e-waste), the understanding of individual consumers’ main decision triggers represents a key point in increasing the quantity of recycled e-waste. A series of studies from the literature have shown a positive relationship between the consumers’ attitude, awareness, self-efficacy, social norms, and their e-waste recycling intention, as well as the positive influence between the intention and the manifested behavior. Additional to these determinants, in the present study, the influence of social media was analyzed along with the actions taken by the government and nongovernmental organizations, with the purpose to include and to capture, as much as possible, a high amount of determinants in the e-waste recycling process. Nevertheless, the demographic or socio-economic variables, such as age, gender, income, education, number of family members, etc., have shown over time to have a contribution to predicting the consumers’ pro-recycling behavior. As on one side, in the research literature, the opinions related to which of the demographic or socio-economic factors can have an impact on the recycling behavior have been divided and, on another side, a series of researchers believe that the discrepancies in the findings of different studies can be due to culture in various countries, in this paper we conducted such an analysis with reference to the Romania’s case. The results have shown that the demographic variables, such as age and gender, can have a contribution to predicting residents’ pro-e-waste recycling behavior. Based on these findings, the policymakers can gain a better understanding of the e-waste recycling phenomenon and on its main triggers, with results in creating better policies for sustaining a proper e-waste managing system.

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Determinants of Individuals’ E-Waste Recycling Decision: A Case Study from Romania

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“…With mixed strategy (x, 1 − x), 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, the expected payoff functions [36] of travelers choosing air and HSR travel are as follows:…”

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Dynamic Evolution Game of Travelers’ Air-to-HSR Choice under the Scenario of HSR Speed-Up

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Yan

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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With the technological advancement, China’s high-speed rail (HSR) has achieved a higher running speed than ever before, which at the same time leads to the intensive competition between air and high-speed rail with trips within 500–1000 km, as well as to the significant changes of travelers’ air-to-HSR choice. In order to explore the dynamic adaptation of travelers’ choice of high-speed rail (HSR) and air in the case of HSR speed-up, a logit dynamics model of travelers’ choice based on evolutionary game was constructed to describe the evolution of travelers’ choice. With HSR-air travel time and the ticket price of origin-destination (OD) points of Beijing-Shanghai as the benchmark, the study set up two scenarios of HSR speed-up and compared and analyzed their payoffs in value. On the basis of mathematical simulation, the travelers’ “air-to-HSR choice” and the change of competition range under the background of HSR speed-up were both discussed. The result indicated that the HSR speed-up would attract more travelers, and its share rate would rise to 58.31% and 72.73%, respectively, with HSR running speed increasing to 400 and 600 km/h; the marginal utility of HSR speed-up is more obvious, and in the meantime, the increase of HSR running speed extends the intense HSR-air competition range to longer-distance travels. In the case of HSR speed-up, travelers’ choice changes as well. The HSR operators themselves should formulate reasonable ticket prices and improve their management. At the same time, the air operators should adjust their operation plan in time.

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“…Uncertified recyclers are sometimes called informal recyclers [ 24 ], unqualified recyclers [ 14 ], and irregular recyclers [ 25 ] in the literature. Briassoulis [ 26 ] and Guha-Khasnobis et al [ 27 ] stated that uncertified means the sector is not within the scope of official governance and not approved and authorized by the government.…”

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“…As the regulator, the government has two management strategies for the e-waste recycling industry, namely, governance and no-governance [ 14 , 42 ]. With governance, the government can actively supervise the uncertified recycler’s behaviors of disposal and recycling and formulate policies to incentivize its industrial upgrading.…”

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“…In order to reduce the negative influence on the environment and public health of uncertified recycling, the Chinese government has adopted regulations on the activities of the uncertified recycler, such as Administrative Measures for Eligibility License for Disposal of Waste and Discarded Electrical and Electronic Products, and Regulation on the Administration of the Recovery and Disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic products (2019 revised) [ 4 , 14 ]. These policies aim to guide the uncertified recycler to become certified and adopt treatment technologies that meet various requirements.…”

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Behavioral Evolutionary Analysis between the Government and Uncertified Recycler in China’s E-Waste Recycling Management

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Jin

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In many developing countries, the existence of the uncertified recycler seriously hinders the healthy development of the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE or e-waste) recycling industry. As a result, how the government can regulate the uncertified recycler to improve environment and public health during the recycling processes has become a critical issue. To help tackle this issue, we build an evolutionary game model to study the interactions between the government and the uncertified recycler. We conduct stability analysis of each participant and obtain four asymptotically stable states. Furthermore, we conduct numerical simulations for comparative analysis based on the current situation of the Chinese e-waste recycling industry. Our results are as follows. First, there exist multiple asymptotically stable states for the government and the uncertified recycler, namely (no-governance, maintaining status quo), (governance, maintaining status quo), (governance, industrial upgrading), and (no-governance, industrial upgrading). Then, we verify the validity of the evolutionary game model through numerical simulations and find that penalty, supervision cost, additional investment cost, and financial subsidy can significantly influence the behavioral strategy of the government and the uncertified recycler. Finally, we find that the government should adopt the reward-penalty-supervision mechanism to promote the healthy development of the e-waste recycling industry and protect the environment and public health. Specifically, first, the government’s subsidy for the uncertified recycler has upper and lower limits. Exceeding the upper limit will result in an excessive financial burden to the government, while falling below the lower limit will hinder the uncertified recycler from technology upgrading. Second, the government should strengthen the supervision of the uncertified recycler and increase the punishment for violations. Third, the government should focus on controlling the supervision cost. Fourth, according to the asymptotically stable state (no-governance, industrial upgrading), the government should prepare to withdraw from the market when the uncertified recycler chooses industrial upgrading.

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Evolutionary game analysis on behavioral strategies of multiple stakeholders in E-waste recycling industry

Cited by 132 publications

References 38 publications

Determinants of Individuals’ E-Waste Recycling Decision: A Case Study from Romania

Determinants of Individuals’ E-Waste Recycling Decision: A Case Study from Romania

Dynamic Evolution Game of Travelers’ Air-to-HSR Choice under the Scenario of HSR Speed-Up

Behavioral Evolutionary Analysis between the Government and Uncertified Recycler in China’s E-Waste Recycling Management

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