Identifying the key policy drivers for behavioral improvement in waste source separation in the Yangtze Delta Region, China

Study on the impact of social capital on the rural residents’ conscious interpersonal waste separation behavior: evidence from Jiangxi province, China

“…It can be seen that government policies play an important role in the classification of rural household waste in China. This indirectly confirms the views of many scholars at home and abroad that government policies are an important factor affecting residents' pro environmental behavior (Chen, 2018;Knickmeyer, 2020;Li et al, 2022;Cheng et al, 2023). This conclusion indicates that in guiding rural residents to actively participate in the process of household waste separation, it is necessary to reasonably equip household waste classification facilities and avoid the mixing of waste classification, collection, and treatment environment.…”

Mechanism of Undergraduate Students’ Waste Separation Behavior in the Environmentally Friendly Higher Education Mega Center of Guangzhou

“…Schools can consider how to close the link between the low participation rate of waste separation and the high participation rate of college students. For example, it is possible to set up environmental protection associations, hold contests related to environmental protection, and establish virtual environmental protection communities [ 5 ]. However, after the establishment of the virtual account of college students in the virtual community, the issues of how to activate the community, how to enhance the sense of belonging of members, how to make the norms and culture of the virtual community into the real world, and how to cultivate the habit of environmental protection of college students present great challenges.…”

“…Schools can cultivate the waste separation habits of college students in virtual environmental protection communities and extend online behavior patterns to offline ones. (5) Habits take time to accumulate, but individuals are eventually able to perform certain behaviors in certain situations consciously and without much thought. e development of a habit is a long and complex process, whether it is developing a new habit or changing a "bad habit" to a good habit.…”

“…Psychological-level factors include value factors, environmental cognition, adjustment focus, comfort preference, utility perception, and others. In terms of values factors, in a sample of British urban residents, Li et al found that while social altruistic values are the main influence of a low-carbon lifestyle and ecological values are also a factor, care for the environment is not a main motivation, and changing one's original lifestyle is more due to the influence of human interests; therefore, the authors support the connection between altruistic values and low-carbon behavior [ 5 ]. In his research of low-carbon consumption behavior, Ajzen showed that such values are divided into conspicuous consumption values, emotional consumption values, economic consumption values, functional consumption values, and social consumption values [ 16 ].…”

“…e initial step of recycling MSW is waste separation from residents. Hence, there are a large number of studies focusing on revealing the mechanism of residents' waste separation behavior in different theoretical perspectives, with the aim to provide all residents and management departments with suitable waste separation instructions to followed by referenece [4][5][6][7][8]. However, most studies are sampled to the city residents.…”