The role of perceived effectiveness of policy measures in predicting recycling behaviour in Hong Kong

Abstract

is a compact and 'land-hungry' city where recycling has become an important measure for treating waste and reducing the demand on the limited landfills. The objectives of this paper are to extend the model of recycling attitude and behaviour to explain the relationship between perceived policy effectiveness and recycling behaviour. Previous studies on recycling attitude and behaviour had widely adopted the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the Norm Activation Model (NAM), and drawn policy implications from them.Nevertheless, little research has been conducted to investigate the role of perceived effectiveness of policy measures in predicting recycling behaviour. To address this, a model that integrates the TPB and NAM was proposed in this study, and a street survey was conducted to investigate the case. The results illustrate that recycling intention is influenced by subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, moral norms, and awareness of consequences, as well as a newly proposed construct, namely perceived policy effectiveness.The study proved self-reported recycling behaviour (direct behaviour) and support for policy measures (indirect behaviour) are influenced by recycling intention. All in all the Government should provide more recycling bins, guidelines on recycling activities, and should accent what it has been doing to facilitate and encourage recycling.

Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

“…Wan et al proposed a model that integrates TPB and the Norm Activation Model (NAM) to predict recycling behaviours and added perceived policy effectiveness into the model as a moderating variable. Their results presented the perceived policy effectiveness, which played a negative moderating role between subject norm and recycling intention [40]. However, the function of perceived policy effectiveness may not be fully discussed towards waste separation behaviours.…”

“…Moreover, they discussed and demonstrated the moderating effect of perceived policy effectiveness on recycling intention based on a survey in Hong Kong [40]. Thus, the residents' perceived policy effectiveness functioned as a perception of external or situational factor and this is assumed to generate a profound impact on the relationships between psychological determinants, intention and separating behaviour.…”

Proposta de um modelo de avaliação das ações do poder público municipal perante as políticas de gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos no Brasil: um estudo aplicado ao município de Curitiba

“…Zurbrügg (2003) Wan et al (2014) mostraram que a intenção de reciclar é influenciada por políticas e comportamentos, mas é extremamente subjetiva e não depende apenas de uma política de educação ambiental, como ressaltou Lakhan (2014), nem mesmo só de fatores socioeconômicos, como propôs Saphores & Nixon (2014).…”

“…Em 2000, alguns estudos se direcionaram sobre como as organizações de reciclagem eram estruturadas, especialmente em países em desenvolvimento (Wilson et al, 2001;Zurbrügg, 2003). Outras pesquisas recentes analisam a otimização da cadeia de reciclagem, políticas públicas e a estruturação de redes (Wan et al, 2014;Saphores & Nixon, 2014;Santiago & Dias, 2012;Pires et al, 2011;Othman et al, 2013;Mo et al, 2009;Matsumoto, 2011;Moh & Manaf, 2014;Lin, 2008;Lakhan, 2014). Adicionalmente, alguns estudos tratam da proposição de modelos de análise das políticas públicas de gestão de resíduos, mas salientam a dificuldade de integralizar diferentes abordagens e temas para um único modelo aplicável em diferentes contextos (Soltani et al, 2015;Guerrero et al, 2013;Plata-Díaz et al, 2014;Bing et al, 2016;.…”

“…Estes modelos envolvem diferentes abordagens ou contextos. As abordagens dos estudos podem ser variadas, como a questão da gestão integrada dos agentes envolvidos na cadeia (Santiago & Dias, 2012); ou a abordagem institucional e a influência das regras formais ou informais na cadeia (Silva & Biernaski, 2015); ou a avaliação das ações do poder público municipal (Wan et al, 2014); ou a avaliação das ações das empresas e da sociedade civil organizada; ou mesmo a participação e a constituição de redes sociais para políticas e ações de reciclagem (Saphores & Nixon, 2014;Mo et al, 2009). Por outro lado, há estudos com foco na avaliação da gestão integrada de resíduos segundo um determinado contexto (Zurbrügg, 2003;Wilson et al, 2001;Pires et al, 2011).…”