Social Environmental Concern: a Transnational Study
This exploratory study analyzes whether the general public’s willingness to selectively separate a particular type of household waste implies a commitment to extending such participation to other materials, and to what extent this is the case. It also considers domestic habits in selective separation, provides a profile of the person who does so, discusses the motives for either becoming involved or not, and looks at the effects of both traveling time to waste disposal points and the frequency of waste disposal trips, besides drawing comparisons between results in the USA and Spain. Two regions employing different collection systems –the Principality of Asturias (Spain) and El Paso County (USA)– were chosen to carry out the study, using face-to-face interviews in the streets. The main results obtained show that selective separation is not equally developed in the two populations studied. The Spanish region presents higher selective separation ratios for paper and glass than American one. This situation is opposite in the case of light packaging. These discrepancies are due to the different consumer habits and the different collection systems applied in both countries studied.
environment recycling systems waste management recycling motivation glass industry
Pilar L.González Verónica Ordó.ez B.Adenso-Díaz
Industrial Engineering School of Gijón.University of Oviedo,Spain
国际会议
北京
英文
2007-05-30（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）