A study of factors influencing consumers behavior in recycling waste household electronic appliances

Abstract： The innovation of technology and the. improvement of people's living standard accelerate the replacement of consumer electronic appliances, resulting in a significant increase of waste household electronic appliances (WHEA). To address the environmental problems of WHEA, many countries have enacted legislation according to WHEA management, including collecting, processing and recycling. The regulations on the management of WHEA were also drafted in China and pilot programs of WHEA recycling management encountered difficulties in collecting WHEA. The success of a recycling scheme is dependent on people's willingness of participating in the scheme. This paper applies Ajzen's theory of planned behavior to seek the main factors to engourage consumers to participate in WHEA recycling management in China. Data from a survey conducted with a sample of 633 consumers show that service motivation is the first predictor of participation behavior intention, followed by environmental behavior attitude, economic motivation, subjective norm, and perceived behavior harrier. Environmental knowledge is found not to be the predictor of behavior intention in this recycling scheme. Study results also suggest that publicity is the key situational factor in the WHEA recycling management. Recycling network and policy have little influence on changing consumers' current behavior intention and participation. Implications of the findings are discussed and future research directions are suggested in the end. 作 者： LAN Ying    ZHU Qing-hua    LIU Bin   作者單位： LAN Ying,ZHU Qing-hua(School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China)

LIU Bin(School of Management, Shenyang Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Shenyang 110136, P. R. China) 

期 刊： 生態經濟（英文版）    Journal： ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY  年，卷(期)： 2010, 6(1)  分類號： X3  Keywords： Waste household electronic appliances (WHEA)    Recycling management    Behavior intention   

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