دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی عوامل روانشناختی و شرطی موثر بر روی هدف جدا سازی پسماندهای کارکنان - الزویر 2018

Abstract:

With the increasing application of online to offline food delivery service, “Office building besieged by online-to-offline takeaway waste” becomes new and serious problems to the sustainability of Chinese cities. This paper examined the determinants of waste separation intention of takeaway waste among 487 urban residents by using the extended theory of planned behavior. Three additional factors were added into the Theory of Planned Behavior model: environmental concern, facilities and time pressure. The empirical results indicated that the attitude, perceived behavioral control, facilities was significantly and positively related to the waste separation intention. While the relationship between time pressure and intention was significantly negative. And the attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control towards separation of food takeaway waste partially mediated the effects of consumers’ environmental concern on the intention. The result also supported the applicability of including additional constructs in theory of planned behavior, as it had improved the predictive utility of the proposed model. At the end, implications for concerned stakeholders and scope for further research had been discussed.

5. Discussion, conclusions and limitations

Management of take-away waste in workplaces has become a serious problem in Chinese cities while the separation of the mixed waste is regarded as a promising solution. The results of this paper demonstrated that consumers’ intention to separate the take-away waste in workplaces could be predicted by six constructs included in this study. The result indicated that necessary facilities provided by the local authorities and property management companies were the most essential factor to stimulate and guarantee individuals to separate the takeaway waste in workplace, which conforming to previous studies . And it is the same in the context of household waste separation in China, Zhang et al. (2016) indicated that 24.1% more of the total household waste would be separated and recycled if the sorting and recycling facilities were readily accessible. In practice, the strategy of providing facilities to promote sorting waste will be effective only when the facilities provision is designed in accordance with individuals’ requirements (Lorenz et al., 2017). Here in the context of workplaces, there are two points should be emphasized when providing the facilities. Firstly, since the take-away waste is a mixed kind, so proper facilities should be designed and provided. Classified bins, such as bins for disposable tableware and plastic waste, food waste, and other recyclable waste (tissues, paper-made cups) should be provided separately. If there were not separated bins specifically design for separation of mixed waste, consumers may feel inconvenient and unable to separate waste even if they thought they should do, and had to throw all the waste in one bin. Secondly, the waste should be collected and transported to the refuse collection in time, avoiding leachate percolation and foul odors in workplace.