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dc.contributor.author | Briguglio, Marie | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-26T08:36:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-26T08:36:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Briguglio, M. (2012). Kerbside enthusiasm : the determinants of voluntary waste separation efforts by households in Malta. The Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics (SABE), Granada. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45894 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper applies theoretical insights from environmental and behavioural economics to analyze the determinants of voluntary participation in a waste separation scheme in Malta. The application offers a rare opportunity to examine purely voluntary environmental behaviour in the absence of incentives (indeed in the presence of disincentives): households voluntarily sorted, stored and paid for weekly kerbside collection of recyclable waste, even though the collection of un-separated municipal solid waste continued to be offered free of charge on a quasi-daily basis – also at the kerbside. A model is specified and empirically estimated using a rich panel data set including kilograms of separated waste collected across all municipalities in the island of Malta over 86 weeks. The findings reveal that initial preferences/constraints together with the variations in policy design may have created the conditions that generated the variation in observed voluntary waste separation effort. The findings also confirm, inter alia, that favourable sentiment towards government constitutes an important initial condition that can be associated with higher voluntary environmental effort. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Refuse collection -- Case studies -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Refuse and refuse disposal -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.title | Kerbside enthusiasm : the determinants of voluntary waste separation effort in Malta | en_GB |
dc.type | conferenceObject | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferencename | The Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics | en_GB |
dc.bibliographicCitation.conferenceplace | Granada, Spain, July 2012 | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
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