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Household Waste Management

Some Insights from Behavioural Economics

verfasst von: Dr. Marianna Gilli, Susanna Mancinelli, Dr. Francesco Nicolli

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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This book surveys existing literature from both waste management and behavioural sciences to offer a complete overview of how economic agents relate to a central matter in the policy making agenda: that of waste prevention and recycling. Environmental behavioural economics is a growing field of research, yet investigation in this area concentrates mostly on energy savings or pollution reduction. The authors highlight the importance of the role of waste management, analysing the effect of monetary and non-monetary incentives and motivations, and explores the complex interplay between motivations, recycling, minimisation and waste policies to affect consumer behaviour.

This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers in the fields of waste management and environmental economics.

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Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Introduction

Abstract

This chapter introduces the purpose of the book as well as the waste management system in the EU, and the concept of circular economy. The aim of the book is to offer insights about the main determinants of individual attitudes toward waste reduction and recycling. The book collects some of the main contributions of the economic literature on the topic as well as two original empirical investigations that intend to verify the role of different determinants on individuals’ waste-related behaviours, and their possible interactions. The book enriches the scarce literature on the determinants of waste behaviours and of the efficacies of waste policies and provides some important suggestion for policymaking.

Marianna Gilli, Susanna Mancinelli, Francesco Nicolli

Chapter 2. Individual Motivations and Waste-Related Behaviours

Abstract

This chapter is devoted to the analysis of individuals’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivations behind pro-social behaviours, focusing particularly on the waste management context. Drivers different from the pecuniary ones are considered to incentivize people to undertake waste reduction and recycling. The possible interrelationships between the two waste management behaviours are investigated and some field experiment studies have been reported that contribute to a better understanding of the motivations that lead people to adopt pro-social behaviour in the waste realm.

Marianna Gilli, Susanna Mancinelli, Francesco Nicolli

Chapter 3. Waste Policies and Individual Behaviours

Abstract

This chapter investigates waste policies that may affect individuals’ behaviour towards waste minimization and recycling. Both market base mechanisms, as unit-based pricing for unsorted waste, and technical policies, as adoption of curbside or drop-off systems are considered. The strength and weakness of each mechanism as drivers of people’s waste-related behaviours are highlighted.

Marianna Gilli, Susanna Mancinelli, Francesco Nicolli

Chapter 4. Prevention and Recycling Behaviours Across the EU

Abstract

This chapter investigates the correlation between individual motivation and households’ waste minimization and recycling. Individuals act based upon intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, the first one being something that comes from within the person itself and the second being conditioned on the receiving of an external reward. We aim to assess if one type of motivation is more correlated with one of the two behaviours (minimization and recycling) or the other. Using Eurobarometer data, we note that extrinsic motivation has a higher effect on sorting habits than on minimization behaviour while the reverse is true for intrinsic motivation. Conversely, intrinsic motivation plays a major role in prevention and for the recycling of particular kind of wastes such as hazardous waste.

Marianna Gilli, Susanna Mancinelli, Francesco Nicolli

Chapter 5. Do Motivations Crowd in Recycling Policies? Evidence from Italy

Abstract

This chapter, finally, considers both motivations and waste policies as determinants of people’s waste-related behaviour, with a specific focus on recycling. It analyses how waste collection policies can incentivize household recycling behaviours and whether individual motivations are capable of crowding-in policy efficacies, especially when the efforts required by agents are high. We exploit a new survey of 618 Italian families that reports information on the opinions and stated actual recycling behaviours of the respondents with respect to five different waste materials. The results of our empirical analysis show that collection policies oriented at reducing time opportunity costs increase household recycling behaviours, and it is extremely relevant that policies are efficiently managed, lest discouraging effects occur. Moreover, individual motivations matter and may overcome possible weaknesses in waste policies, for example, by reducing the negative effects of ‘distance’ between households and recycling centres.

Marianna Gilli, Susanna Mancinelli, Francesco Nicolli

Backmatter

Titel: Household Waste Management
verfasst von: Dr. Marianna Gilli
Susanna Mancinelli
Dr. Francesco Nicolli
Copyright-Jahr: 2018
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-97810-9
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-97809-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97810-9

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