Survey and analysis of consumers' behaviour of waste mobile phone recycling in China

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 517-525

  Yin, Jianfeng ^a   Gao, Yingnan ^b   Xu, He ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

EPR; Management; Questionnaire; Recycling; Waste mobile phone

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SURVEY AND ANALYSIS; WASTE MOBILE PHONE;

ECONOMICS; MANAGEMENT; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 84893767415     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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