Public Perceptions and Practices of Solid Waste Recycling in the City of Laramie in Wyoming, U.S.A.

Bom, Upendra B.; Belbase, Shashidhar; Lila, Reni Bibriven

doi:10.3390/recycling2030011

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“…These scholars claimed to have found a high measurement of consumers attitude to preserve the environment, while in fact they measured consumer attitude towards recycling. When adopting a consumer perspective, previous research described recycling as a method of separating and collecting used or waste products (Bom et al, 2017). Reflecting on the statement of Minton and Rose (1997), in combination with the found consumer definition of recycling, it can be concluded that consumer attitude towards the collection and separation of waste products, and not towards the preservation of the environment, is high.…”

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Consumer acceptance of circular business models

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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Society has been operating in a linear way which implies rapid waste generation. Previous research has shown business models able to reclaim products at end-of-use are currently poorly developed and implemented. A shift should be made to Circular Business Models (CBM) that focus on the re-use and recycling of materials. However, little is known about consumers' acceptance and willingness to participate in CBMs. The present study aims to enrich the existing research on CBM consumer acceptance which currently lacks generalisable quantitative insights on preferential CBM design. The consumer intention to participate in three types of CBMs (take-back management, product lease and pay-per-use) is analysed emphasising three key characteristics: ownership, responsibility and payment structure. We use an established consumer behaviour theory, the Theory of Planned Behaviour and extend it with two main factors (environmental attitude and habits) in order to make it apt for analysing consumer preferences regarding environmental decision-making. Results show consumers' clear preference for takeback management models over leasing or pay-per-use models. In particular, habits and consumer opinion regarding payment structures are revealed to have a large influence on consumer intention to participate in CBMs. Altered payment structures in leasing and pay-per use seem a crucial reason for lower acceptance. Ownership on the other hand had a marginal influence, which was not expected based on CBM literature. This suggests that institutionalised consumer habits have to be acknowledged and alternative characteristics have to be introduced gradually to reform habits. The results can serve as guidance for companies in their design and implementation of circular strategies to reclaim products after use. Future research should aim to more deeply understand the relation between consumers acceptance and the responsibility and payment structure characteristics of CBMs.

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Consumer acceptance of circular business models

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“…Convenience is a key controlling factor for the willingness to separate waste into recyclable fractions [25,30]. The relative success of kerbside collection probably lies in the availability that comes with the short distances.…”

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Coloured Plastic Bags for Kerbside Collection of Waste from Households—To Improve Waste Recycling

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Today, considerable amounts of resources are landfilled or incinerated, and recyclable materials such as metal, glass, plastic, and paper are disposed of as residual waste instead of being sorted into recyclable fractions. Recycling is one way of transitioning towards a circular economy and a more resource-efficient society. However, in many older cities there is insufficient space for waste bins, which makes waste sorting difficult. The aim of the study was to test how the introduction of a new kerbside collection system, using different-coloured plastic bags, would influence the amounts of residual waste and separately collected food waste. Coloured plastic bags were introduced in an old city centre in Kalmar, in the southeast of Sweden. This type of kerbside collection was applied to 38 apartments with a total of 87 residents for four weeks. Results show that residual waste decreased directly by 15 percent and the collected amount of food waste increased directly by 35 percent. The residents perceived that the sorting system facilitated sorting and that the sorting of recyclable materials increased. Kerbside collection, close to properties, seemed to be an important factor in reducing the amount of residual waste, leading to increased sorting, and hence improved recycling.

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“…Previous studies [3], [12], [14], [15] have shown that such motivations are associated with the amount of information that an individual has about recycling [16], with the degree of routinization, i.e. to what extent recycling is embedded in people's lives [17], [18], and with individual responsibility for the environment [19]. Therefore, the construct is based on three following variables.…”

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Crowding-Out Effect of Financial Incentives for Households to Recycle Waste

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2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Willingness of individuals to recycle their waste is driven by a wide range of factors. These may be distinguished as intrinsic, for example perceived importance of recycling, and extrinsic, e.g. commandand-control interventions or financial incentives in a form of landfill taxes, deposits, charges, and fees. In order to increase the participation rate, specific policy measures and interventions are introduced. Some of these interventions, like educational campaigns, are focused on intrinsic motivation of residents, whereas some other measures are using financial stimuli to affect people's recycling behavior directly. In this respect, the crowding-out effect might occur when financial incentives might reduce the effect of intrinsic factors. This paper reports on responsiveness of residents to the direct and indirect incentives. The purpose of this analysis was to test the crowding-out hypothesis supposing that direct incentives are replacing the intrinsic motivation to recycle. The presented data is based on a nationwide survey (n=1.579) that was conducted in the Czech Republic during 2017 and confirms the hypothesis for a large part of the population (50%). However, it was also found that one fifth of the sample is responsive only to the direct incentives. Therefore, the crowding-out effect is not confirmed for a segment of the population. It seems that direct and indirect incentives may not be mutually exclusive. For some individuals the direct and indirect measures might support each other and together may increase positive impacts on recycling behavior. It is also highly recommended to consider the context within which the given measures are to be implemented. Under certain circumstances, such as high intrinsic motivation of residents, the launch of direct measures may not be reasonable.

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Public Perceptions and Practices of Solid Waste Recycling in the City of Laramie in Wyoming, U.S.A.

Cited by 27 publications

References 33 publications

Consumer acceptance of circular business models

Consumer acceptance of circular business models

Coloured Plastic Bags for Kerbside Collection of Waste from Households—To Improve Waste Recycling

Crowding-Out Effect of Financial Incentives for Households to Recycle Waste

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