The Determinants of Household Recycling: A Material Specific Analysis of Recycling Program Features and Unit Pricing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the profile of people who utilize drop-off recycling sites and analyzed the factors influencing their site usage, such as age, education, income and household size.

TL;DR: Using concepts from environmental psychology and economics, this paper investigated U.S. households' willingness to engage in a form of pro-environmental behavior: recycling electronic waste (e-waste) at drop-off locations.

TL;DR: The household-recycling rate in the Borough of Burnley, England in 2001/2002 was only half the national average of 12%. as mentioned in this paper employed both quantitative and qualitative surveys in order to ascertain whether householders' attitudes to recycling were contributory factors to the generally poor recycling performance and investigate other social, cultural and structural influences.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the main social factors influencing household recycling behavior is given and key motivation drivers for behavioural change are identified. And the results in combination are supposed to serve as a resource for practitioners and as a basis to develop further studies focusing on the improvement of recycling behavior in defined urban areas and tailored to the local situation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate household reaction to the implementation of unit-pricing for the collection of residential garbage, and also estimate the probability that a household chooses each method available to reduce its garbage.

TL;DR: The most accurate and current information available is used, although it should be noted that some states do not track waste generation, waste disposal or recycling figures continuously as mentioned in this paper, which is not the case in most states.