Recycling behavior that occurs in households with private members

Abstract

Recycling can help limit the consumption of primary resources, it requires significant technological investment in circular flow systems for regional regions. The effectiveness of recycling programs depend, however, on the behaviour of household members. So, the current research is focused on psychological and behavioral theories of altruism, moral behaviour as well as social values. From a perspective of economics recycling systems can be considered as public goods that have contributions that result in positive externalities. In this sense the research shows that recycling behaviors are heavily dependent on the way others act. In neutrally-framed public good studies, participation tend to rise when other public goods are provided and a sense of group identity is created. We hope to contribute to this discussion by studying the behavior of households regarding recycling options in controlled environments. 

Introduction

In recent years, the escalating growth of recycling in the industrial sector and the enhancement of circular economy networks that are associated with them have been a major focus in environmental policies. Recycling is not just a way to lower the environmental costs that are caused by waste, but it can be utilized in particular by the industrial policy in order to lessen some shortages in raw material as for instance, rare elements employed for mobile phone components. Additionally, recycling can be utilized to decrease emissions from consumption and help reduce the need for space and pollution from landfills across the globe. In this article we employ the broad definition of “recycling” compared with the more narrow definition within the European waste law.

This means that the term encompasses the entire process of recycle waste materials from materials and components back into the cycle of production and consumption which includes all collection transport, treatment, and collection processes. Recycling, as according to the definition in this paper, encompasses reuse of products and components recycling, remanufacturing after use and second-life applications, as well as material and feedstock recycling as well being a means of energy recovery. “Discarding,” as used in this paper, is “discarding” as used in this paper refers to the most inefficient, but legal and orderly method to dispose of trash with respect to environmental and resource efficiency. The third option not covered in this article is the less or more illegal methods of dumping. The word (legal) “disposal” incorporates every method of how to organize and transfer the public waste stream to legal collection systems and transfer them onto elaborate recycling structures that can be transferred to lower-level disposal system.

The literature on economics highlights positive externalities when it comes to the subject of recycling. Families who participate voluntarily in recycling initiatives are also a part of internalizing external effects that are associated with traditional waste management.The model examines recycling in a socio-economic problem scenario. In a social system, every recycling decision can have positive external impact on the other households. Although it’s beneficial to the entire community that every household is cooperative and participates in recycling as much as is possible, each household has a reason to break from this type of co-operation.

Furthermore, we offer households the possibility to be part of large-scale public recycling facilities as well as to contribute to smaller, exclusive recycling groups whose members in large part are also influenced by certain environmental values. The main contribution of our article is the analysis of two research questions: first we inquire if the growing number of recycling options results in an increase in the amount of household contributions (at any point) Furthermore we examine whether the members of the clubs influence the decision-making of the members.

The structure of our paper is in the following manner The second part provides brief overviews of the research literature that has been conducted regarding the recycling practices that private householders engage in. We then analyze the potential of the club as a excellent model for an study of recycling behavior. The fourth section is an explanation of the experiment design we have employed and follows by an explanation of the results of our research during the five-th part. The final section gives an overview of our main observations and offers some suggestions regarding the design of future research.