What encourages households to sort waste: externally enabled conditions, internal incentives or economic enforcement?
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2018
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Univerzita Pardubice
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Municipal waste formation and management are contemporary issues in a
modern world. Residents’ participation is very important trying to utilize and recycle it
because municipal waste is mainly generated by households’. For this reason, waste
collection and sorting at home becomes crucial starting point solving problems created
by waste. Aiming to examine what encourages households to sort waste we analysed
following: (i) is it enough to create waste sorting system to encourage households to
sort waste or (ii) waste sorting habits depend on lifestyle, environmental awareness and
socio-demographic characteristics, or (iii) there is a need to introduce economic
incentives to stimulate waste sorting. Theoretical analysis revealed that the main factors
potentially affecting sorting habits are infrastructure at municipal level, economic
instruments, socio-demographic characteristics and individual motivation. Empirical
survey of Siauliai city households grounded on chi-square statistics and estimations of
logistic regression showed that internal incentives and externally enabled conditions
highly impact households’ waste sorting behaviour. Moreover, results of the research
clearly show that economic incentives embedded into existing waste management system
are not strong enough to shape households’ behaviour.
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p. 41 - 52
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1211-555X (Print)
1804-8048 (Online)
1804-8048 (Online)
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Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice. Series D, Faculty of Economics and Administration. 44/2018
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municipal waste, waste sorting determinants, infrastructure, awareness, motivation, logistic regression