Sustainable Environmental Management Through a Municipal Solid Waste Charging Scheme: A Hong Kong Perspective

Cheng, Chu; Zhou, You; Zhang, Lin

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2022.919683

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“…Most householders in Hong Kong are intensely aware of environmental protection and valid cognition of waste separation and recycling. In addition, the forthcoming implementation of a charging policy for MSW has reinforced householders' understanding of waste management so that most Hong Kong citizens tend to engage positively in the polycentric waste management network 38,39 . In terms of recycling agents, Hong Kong's recycling system is characterized by a symbiosis of informal and formal recyclers 40 .…”

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Measuring the polycentricity in waste governance: a comparative study on Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong

Dong

Xinyu

Qian

et al. 2023

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The ongoing increase in waste and its mismanagement is jeopardizing urban sustainability. Although a polycentric approach has been introduced in the waste governance practice, measuring the polycentricity of urban waste governance remains challenging. This paper, therefore, adopts game theory to analyze urban waste governance from the perspective of governance agents, characterizing the polycentricity of waste governance by investigating the state of equilibrium of each agent's strategy. Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong are selected as target cities for comparative analysis. It is found that the active participation of formal recyclers, informal recyclers, and householders characterizes polycentric waste governance in Shanghai. However, in Tokyo, there is the active participation of only formal recyclers and householders and not informal recyclers. In Hong Kong, by comparison, householders and informal recyclers show active participation, but formal recyclers only provide a limited contribution to polycentric waste governance. Further discussion highlights that different governance patterns, socioeconomic factors, and policy formulation shape the distinctive polycentric governance characteristics of these cities. This paper provides a model basis for measuring and comparing the features of polycentric waste governance across different cities, thereby contributing to the knowledge aggregation regarding waste governance, as well as enlightening the pathways of waste governance practice.

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Section: Tokyo-polycentric Structure With Domination By Formal Recycl...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the polycentricity in waste governance: a comparative study on Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong

Dong

Xinyu

Qian

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Characterizing the polycentricity in waste governance: a comparative study on Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong

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Dong,

Qian

et al. 2024

npj Urban Sustain

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From Trash to Treasure: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Green@Community Recycling Network in Hong Kong

Chan,

Hui,

Chan

2024

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Municipal solid waste (MSW) is a growing problem worldwide posing a variety of environmental and human health impacts. Despite recycling being one major strategy to alleviate MSW production, the effectiveness of recycling has been equivocally dependent on local policy implementation and citizen environmental behavior. To enhance recycling effectiveness in Hong Kong, the government has established Green@Community, a unified community-based network for recycling and public environmental education. Since its establishment, the number of visitors to and the amount of recyclable materials collected at the network increased steadily over time. Our study is the very first to investigate the effectiveness of this territory-wide recycling network. Through a questionnaire survey, we found that respondents’ recycling traits were stronger if they have accrued gift tokens through participating in recycling activities. Visiting a Green@Community facility could also enhance knowledge of the types of acceptable recyclables, and respondents who had visited a Green@Community facility agreed that education and publicity could increase the recycling rate in Hong Kong. These findings highlighted the effectiveness and uniqueness of this community-based recycling network, its role in raising recycling knowledge, and its implications for policymakers and urban planners of densely populated cities to leverage society’s recycling participation, but also called for more efforts on developing, promoting, and incentivizing the usage of such a network to further enhance recycling and alleviate MSW production in Hong Kong.

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Sustainable Environmental Management Through a Municipal Solid Waste Charging Scheme: A Hong Kong Perspective

Cited by 4 publications

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Measuring the polycentricity in waste governance: a comparative study on Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong

Measuring the polycentricity in waste governance: a comparative study on Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong

Characterizing the polycentricity in waste governance: a comparative study on Shanghai, Tokyo, and Hong Kong

From Trash to Treasure: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Green@Community Recycling Network in Hong Kong

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