Interdisciplinary, systematic review found influences on household recycling behaviour are many and multifaceted, requiring a multi-level approach

Macklin, Jennifer; Curtis, Jim; Smith, Liam

doi:10.1016/j.rcradv.2023.200152

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“…Geiger et al, 2019;Miafodzyeva & Brandt, 2013). In our most recent systematic review (Macklin et al, 2023), we identified 130 factors linked to kerbside recycling behaviour in the literature up until 2020, but found that over 40% of these factors had conflicting results across the studies investigating them. Our review speculated that unidentified interactions and mediations might explain some of these conflicting results.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Methodologically, the current study's quality appraisal draws on a replication of the Macklin et al (2023) systematic, mixed-methods review of influences on recycling behaviour. It extends the original sample, which contained literature published between 2010 and 2020, to cover new research published between 2021-2023.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The following section summarises the key aspects of the original search and screening process, the additional search and screening, and the new quality appraisal. Further detail on the original systematic review methodology can be found in Macklin et al (2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However we also suggested that other methodological differences might account for some discrepancies, including audience selection and sampling, operationalisation of constructs, and reliability of data collection methods (National Academies, 2019). We therefore concluded that a deeper investigation of the methodologies and evidence could reveal a clearer picture of which factors the field can be confident do or don't influence household recycling behaviour (Macklin et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 94%

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Systematic, quality appraisal of household recycling influences research finds evidence is mostly insufficient

Macklin,

Smith,

Curtis

2023

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Research on recycling behaviour and its influences can play a key role in supporting public policy efforts to mitigate the negative effects of waste generation and landfilling. However, recent reviews have raised concerns about the quality of research on recycling behaviour. Despite this, no previous reviews have conducted quality appraisals to judge the extent and impact of quality issues. This is partly due to the difficulty of applying validated quality appraisal tools developed for intervention reviews in the health and medicine fields to behaviour influence reviews in environment and sustainability fields. This review aims to fill this gap by developing and piloting a bespoke quality appraisal framework, specifically tailored to the needs of interdisciplinary reviews of the influences on recycling and other pre-environmental behaviours. Application of the bespoke framework to a set of 81 systematically selected recycling papers highlights the substantial lack of causal evidence and the weak construct validity of measured ‘behaviour’. These quality issues undermine the ability of individual studies and the body of literature as a whole to draw strong conclusions about what factors have causal influence on real-world recycling behaviour in broad populations of interest. At the same time, this review identifies instances of better practice and key future directions to improve the quality of research and confidence in what influences household recycling behaviour.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 94%

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Systematic, quality appraisal of household recycling influences research finds evidence is mostly insufficient

Macklin,

Smith,

Curtis

2023

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“…The author proposes that waste-separation policy design use the 4C marketing mix theory (customer needs, cost, convenience, and communication). The difference between factors pertaining to individuals (micro) and to households (meso) can also be ascertained (Macklin et al, 2023). Most studies agree that recycling behavior is multifaceted, depending on a variety of factors (see also Hage et al, 2009;Oluwadipe et al, 2022;Varotto & Spagnolli, 2017), but social norms are always found to play a leading role.…”

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Encouraging household waste separation: can social comparison help?

Cardadeiro,

Roseta-Palma,

Laneiro

2023

ERBE

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As more people move to urban areas, larger flows of solid waste are generated, bringing about significant challenges in municipal solid waste management. Implications of management failure can be serious for human health and for the environment, and landfills are not a sustainable solution. European legislation makes it clear that business-as-usual is not good enough and sets ambitious targets for the coming years. In Portugal, waste separation at source is far below the desired levels, highlighting the need for policy change. Other authors have attempted to stimulate resource conservation, especially for water and electricity, using socialcomparison nudges. In this paper, we describe a similar field experiment for waste, developed in 6 parishes ("freguesias") in the north of Portugal; treatment households received a message comparing their parish's per capita deposition of sorted waste in existing collection bins to that of a neighboring parish or to higher environmental targets. Finally results, however, are contradictory.

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The state of disaster and resilience literature in British Columbia, Canada. A systematic scoping review

Milne,

Legere,

Eaton

et al. 2024

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Interdisciplinary, systematic review found influences on household recycling behaviour are many and multifaceted, requiring a multi-level approach

Cited by 10 publications

References 135 publications

Systematic, quality appraisal of household recycling influences research finds evidence is mostly insufficient

Systematic, quality appraisal of household recycling influences research finds evidence is mostly insufficient

Encouraging household waste separation: can social comparison help?

The state of disaster and resilience literature in British Columbia, Canada. A systematic scoping review

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