Perceived key elements of a successful residential food waste sorting program in urban apartments: stakeholder views

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 134, Issue Part A, 2016, Pages 362-370

  Xu, D Y ^a   Lin, Z Y ^a   Gordon, M P R ^a,b   Robinson, N K L ^a,b   Harder, M K ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour change; Food waste; Kitchen waste; Recycling; Waste segregation; Waste sorting

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; RECYCLING;

BEHAVIOUR CHANGES; FOOD WASTE; HIGH-DENSITY HOUSING; KITCHEN WASTE; NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; WASTE SORTING;

HOUSING;

EID: 84990975412     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.12.107     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Abrahamse, W., Steg, L., Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: a meta-analysis. Glob. Environ. Change 23 (2013), 1773–1785.
2. Abrahamse, W., Steg, L., Vlek, C., Rothengatter, T., A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation. J. Environ. Psychol. 25 (2005), 273–291.
3. Babbie, E., The Practice of Social Research Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Belmont, 2010.
4. Bernstad, A., Jansena, J.l.C., Aspegren, A., Door stepping as a strategy for improved food waste recycling behaviour – evaluation of a full-scale experiment. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 73 (2013), 94–103.
5. Boonrod, K., Towprayoon, S., Bonnet, S., Tripetchkul, S., Enhancing organic waste separation at the source behavior: a case study of the application of motivation mechanisms in communities in Thailand. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 95 (2015), 77–90.
6. Chang, Y.M., Liu, C.C., Dai, W.C., Hu, A., Tseng, C.H., Chou, C.M., Municipal solid waste management for total resource recycling: a case study on Haulien County in Taiwan. Waste Manage. Res. J. Int. Solid Wastes Public Clean. Assoc. ISWA 31 (2013), 87–97.
7. Chao, Y., Time series analysis of the effects of refuse collection on recycling: Taiwan's “Keep Trash Off the Ground” measure. Waste Manage. 28 (2008), 859–869.
8. Chatterton, T., An Introduction to Thinking about “Energy Behavior”: a Multi Model Approach. 2011.
9. Cheng, H., Hu, Y., Municipal solid waste (MSW) as a renewable source of energy: current and future practices in China. Bioresour. Technol. 101 (2010), 3816–3824.
10. Dahlen, L., Lagerkvist, A., Methods for household waste composition studies. Waste Manage. 28 (2008), 1100–1112.
11. Dahlen, L., Evaluate Source Sorting Programs in Household Waste Collection Systems. 2005, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden.
12. Dai, Y.C., Gordon, M.P.R., Ye, J.Y., Xu, D.Y., Lin, Z.Y., Robinson, N.K.L., Woodard, R., Harder, M.K., Why doorstepping can increase household waste recycling. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 102 (2015), 9–19 Doi: 10.1016/.
13. Dai, Y.C., Lin, Z.Y., Li, C.J., Xu, D.Y., Huang, W.F., Harder, M.K., Information strategy failure: personal interaction success, in urban residential food waste segregation. J. Clean. Prod. 134 Part A (2016), 298–309.
14. Dolan, P., Hallsworth, M., Halpern, D., King, D., Vlaev, I., MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through Public Policy. 2010, Institute for Government, Cabinet Office, UK, London.
15. Eppel, S., Sharp, V., Davies, L., A review of Defra's approach to building an evidence base for influencing sustainable behaviour. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 79 (2013), 30–42.
16. Folz, D.H., Hazlett, J.M., Public participation and recycling performance: explaining program success. Public Admin. Rev. 51 (1991), 526–532.
17. G, T., H, T., S, V., Integrated Solid Waste Management: Engineering Principles and Management Issues. 1993, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
18. Huang, W.F., Wang, J., Dai, X.Y., Li, M.R., Harder, M.K., More than financial investment is needed food waste recycling pilots in Shanghai China. J. Clean. Prod. 67 (2014), 107–116.
19. Jackson, T., Motivating Sustainable Consumption: a Review of Evidence on Consumer behaviour and behavioural Change. 2005.
20. Klee, A.J., Carruth, D., Sample weights in solid waste composition studies. J. Sanit. Eng. Div. 96 (1970), 945–954.
21. Levis, J.W., Barlaz, M.A., Themelis, N.J., Ulloa, P., Assessment of the state of food waste treatment in the United States and Canada. Waste Manage. 30 (2010), 1486–1494.
22. Lin, Z.Y. Gordon, M.P.R. Wang, X. Li, C.J. Harder, M.K. An experiment in urban residential food waste sorting: volunteer ‘advisers’ and bright yellow bin covers (unpublished).
23. Liu, C., Wu, X.W., Factors influencing municipal solid waste generation in China: a multiple statistical analysis study. Waste Manage. Res. 29 (2011), 371–378.
24. Lyndhurst, B., Establishing the behaviour Change Evidence Base to Inform Community Based Waste Prevention and Recycling. 2007.
25. Maystre, L.Y., Viret, F., A goal-oriented characterization of urban waste. Waste Manage. Res. 13 (1995), 207–218.
26. Noehammer, H.C., Byer, P.H., Effect of design variables on participation in residential curbside recycling programs. Waste Manage. Res. 15 (1997), 407–427.
27. Nordtest, Solid Waste, Municipal: Sampling and Characterisation. Finland, 1995, 1142–1193.
28. Pariatamby, A., Tanaka, M., Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands: Challenges and Strategic Solutions. 2013.
29. Read, A.D., A weekly doorstep recycling collection I had no idea we could overcoming the local barriers to participation. Resour. Conserv. Recycl., 26, 1999.
30. Refsgaard, K., Magnussen, K., Household behaviour and attitudes with respect to recycling food waste–experiences from focus groups. J. Environ. Manage. 90 (2009), 760–771.
31. Schultz, P.W., Oskamp, S., Effort as a moderator of the attitude-behavior relationship: general environmental concern and recycling. Soc. Psychol. Quart. 59 (1996), 375–383.
32. Seadi, T.A., Owen, N., Hellström, H., Kang, H., Source Separation of MSW: an Overview of the Source Separation and Separate Collection of the Digestible Fraction of Household Waste, and of Other Similar Wastes from Municipalities, Aimed to Be Used as Feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion in Biogas Plants. 2013, IEA Bioenergy.
33. Sfeir, H., Reinhart, D.R., McCauley-Bell, P.R., An evaluation of municipal solid waste composition bias sources. J. Air Waste Manage. 49 (1999), 1096–1102.
34. Sharma, M., McBean, E., A methodology for solid waste characterization based on diminishing marginal returns. Waste Manage. 27 (2007), 337–344.
35. Spaccarelli, S., Zolik, E., Jason, L.A., Effects of verbal prompting and block characteristics on participation in curbside newspaper recycling. J. Environ. Syst. 19 (1989), 45–47.
36. Steg, L., Vlek, C., Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour: an integrative review and research agenda. J. Environ. Psychol. 29 (2009), 309–317.
37. Suttibak, S., Nitivattananon, V., Assessment of factors influencing the performance of solid waste recycling programs. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 53 (2008), 45–56.
38. Tai, J., Zhang, W., Che, Y., Feng, D., Municipal solid waste source-separated collection in China: a comparative analysis. Waste Manage. 31:8 (2011), 1673–1682.
39. Tang, Z., Chen, X., Luo, J., Determining socio-psychological drivers for rural household recycling behavior in developing countries: a case study from Wugan, Hunan, China. Environ. Behav. 43 (2010), 848–877.
40. Thomas, C., Sharp, V., Understanding the normalisation of recycling behaviour and its implications for other pro-environmental behaviours: a review of social norms and recycling. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 79 (2013), 11–20.
41. Timlett, R.E., Williams, I.D., The impact of transient populations on recycling behaviour in a densely populated urban environment. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 53 (2009), 498–506.
42. Vatn, A., Rationality, institutions and environmental policy. Ecol. Econ. 55 (2005), 203–217.
43. Williams, I.D., Cole, C., The impact of alternate weekly collections on waste arisings. Sci. Total Environ. 445–446 (2013), 29–40.
44. Williams, I.D., Kelly, J., Green waste collection and the public's recycling behaviour in the Borough of Wyre. Engl. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 38 (2003), 139–159.
45. WRAP, Improving the Performance of Waste Diversion Schemes – a Good Practice Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation. 2010.
46. Zhuang, Y., Wu, S.W., Wang, Y.L., Wu, W.X., Chen, Y.X., Source separation of household waste: a case study in China. Waste Manage. 28 (2008), 2022–2030.