Factors Influencing Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A U.K. Case Study of Household Waste Management

“Values specific for this field are determiners of environmental attitudes and behaviors ranging from vehicle use to recycling (Barr, 2007).”

“Barr (2007) stresses that education in biology and other heal th sciences should have priori ty over education in other scientific areas.”

“moral norms or other internal variables (Barr, 2007; Saphores and Nixon, 2014) people recycle waste even in systems lacking the extrinsic motivation stimuli such as charges or fees.”

“Environmentally sensitive behaviour, defined as efforts by individuals to limit damaging actions that can harm the physical and natural environment (Albayrak et al. , 2011), has become a research interest of many scholars (e.g. Kollmuss and Agyeman, 2002; Barr, 2007; Young et al. , 2010).”

“The use of selfefficacy as a determinant of environmentally friendly behavior is well documented in the literature (Barr, 2007; Biel, 2003; Chan & Lau, 2002; Oliver & Lee, 2010).”

“Waste behaviour can be examined under three headings: reduction, reuse and recycling (Barr, 2007; Rohr and Martin, 2012).”

“Identity, social norms, and community influence are consistently predictive variables when examining environmentally friendly behaviors—often much better predictors of behavior than knowledge [Barr, 2007; Nigbur et al., 2010; Crowell and Schunn, 2013].”

“that has sustainability content in every chapter (2010). In a study conducted by Laughlin & Kean (1995), textiles or textile science was one of the seven curricular elements that were most frequently included in textiles and apparel programs.”

“…deadlines, particularly if it served a self-preservation objective, preserving their self-esteem or academic identity, which has been reported in other areas of the scholarly literature (e.g., Barr, 2007; Bailey & Wundersitz, 2019; Baumeister, 1997; Polivy et al., 2014; Stirratt et al., 2015).”

“…study of recycling intentions and behavior, which did not find statistically significant associations between personal values and these behavior Barr (2007) argued that recycling is a normative behavior in the UK, and therefore norms accounted for greater variance in recycling behavior than…”

“Other studies have created apps as a waste recycling support tool [48] and shown that subjective and personal attitudes predict various intentions to behave [4].”

“In a study of household waste management, Barr [40] investigates the reasons people reduced, reused, or recycled their waste and concluded that environmental value, knowledge, and concern predicted reduce and reuse behavior, while the recycling was based on highly normative and stereotypical behavior.”

“Barr (2007, 2008) takes these approaches even further by arguing that ‘links between household attitudes and environmental behaviours [. . .] can broadly be attributed to three groups of independent variables: environmental values, situational variables, and psychological factors’ (Barr, p. 436).”

“Waste reduction is where an individual tries to reduce the amount of waste generated and includes behaviours such as switching off lights when not in the room, thus it encourages individuals to use less of a specific item (Barr, 2007).”

“…knowledge, desire to act, emotional responses, and external factors such as economic constraints, convenience of the activity, and social pressures (Barr, 2007; Edgerton, McKechnie, & Dunleavy, 2008; Hines, Hungerford, & Tomera, 1986; Kollmuss & Agyeman, 2002; Saphores, Nixon, Ogunseitan, &…”

“Par ailleurs, ces deux comportements ne sont pas influencés par les mêmes facteurs individuels (Barr, 2007).”

“Conclusions Economic activities by households produce waste (Barr, 2007).”

“Research maintains that access to a structured recycling program is the most important determinant of recycling (Barr 2007; Berger 1997; Derksen and Gartrell 1993; Guagnano et al. 1995; Steel 1996; Walton and Austin 2011).”

“This measure has become a common predictor in environmental behavior studies (Wynveen, Kyle & Sutton, 2014; Brick & Lewis, 2016; Barr, 2007) and Boubonari, Markos and Kevrekidis found in 2013 that a higher NEP score resulted in stronger pro-environmental behavior towards marine pollution in general.”

“Our results contradict, to some extent, the accepted wisdom that residents of urban areas show a higher level of environmentalism (Shen and Saijo 2007) and that families that live in urban areas, with higher incomes and a better educational outlook, are generally more environmental conscious and caring (Barr 2007).”

“…2023; Pellegrini et al., 2019; Vesel ´ a et al., 2023; Annunziata et al., 2021; Aschemann-Witzel et al., 2017; Mallinson, Russell and Barker, 2016; Abeliotis et al., 2019; Herzberg, Schmidt and Schneider, 2020; Cantaragiu, 2019; Barr, 2007; Stancu and L ¨ ahteenm ¨ aki, 2022; Tsalis et al., 2024.”

“Feelings of guilt can motivate waste reduction [39,51], while food waste knowledge and personal sustainability involvement drive behavioral change [40,41].”

“Moreover, individuals’ involvement in green initiatives including waste procurement, environmental protection and others enhances their motivation to adopt green actions [69].”

“In the context of hospitality education, Barr (2007) found that students with a deep understanding and knowledge of the issue of food waste are more expected to refrain from wasting food.”

“Studies have shown that people are more likely to engage in an environmental activity when it is easier for them to complete the task (Barr, 2007).”

“Specifically, research shows that mobile activities such as walking or jogging can cause disturbance to breeding and non-breeding shorebirds (Burger 1986; Lafferty 2001a, 2001b; Weston and Elgar 2005, 2007; Weston et al. 2011; Mayo et al. 2015).”

“This “attitude–behavior gap” is consistent with the literature, suggesting that people with stronger pro-environmental attitudes might not necessarily engage in more pro-environmental behaviors [5, 21] .”

“Much of the grey and white literature on how to improve recycling rates assumes that low returns mean that people in these areas are unwilling to recycle or are indifferent to or unaware of the reasons for it (Barr 2007).”

“…has addressed the role of multiple factors—beliefs, access to information, community support, time, money, and perceived control—in motivating or preventing environmentally protective action, but has not considered the relevance of cultural and political divergences (Barr 2007; Kennedy et al.”

“Unless and other wise, all these will pose serious health problems since compost able organic wastes ferment very soon, creating conditions favorable for the insect breeding as well as source of offensive odor [10].”

“Moreover, it has been shown that subjective, individual norms play a significant role in shaping attitudes towards waste management [3].”

“Participants would usually want to show the researcher how ‘environmental’ they are, and thus, overreporting is somewhat an inevitable outcome of self-reporting (Barr, 2007).”

“Barr (2007) also points to the roles of situational variables, such as an individual’s demographic characteristics; the level of an individual’s knowledge; and contextual factors that allow expression of the behaviour in question (e.g. whether or not kerbside collection for recycling is available –…”

“This is likely from the fact that a variety of behaviors are not always explained by human values [54] and a predictor of one behavior is unlikely the predictor of the others [21].”

“Altruistic values are arrayed from the perspective of personal moral norms in motivating and influencing individual’s engagement for environmental behaviour (Prestin and Pearce 2010; Saphores et al. 2012; Guerin et al. 2001; Tang et al. 2010; Barr, 2007; Torgler et al. 2008).”

“These results align with previous studies emphasizing the strong link between pro-environmental behaviours and sustainable food choices (Lea and Worsley 2008; Barr 2007).”

“Studies by various authors, including Zheng 91 , Stern 26 , Barr 92 , and others, underscored the significance of subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and attitudes in influencing environmental behaviors, aligning with findings from the current study.”

“For instance, turning lights off, driving on bikes, and controlling the wastage of paper (Barr, 2007).”

“The waste problem can only be fully addressed when there is a clear understanding of those factors motivating intentions and behaviors (Barr 2007).”

“In the global north, scholars such as Barr (2007), Tudor et al. (2011), Burnley (2007) Garnett et al. ( 2017), and Aslam et al. (2020) have investigated this phenomenon in regard to man - agement and its impact on the health and environment of the residents.”

“Consistent with findings from previous studies, different types of PEB were not completely consistent [45, 46].”

“Distance is the other factor may affect the participation decision making in waste reduction through recycling facility like WB [36].”

“…ismainly reflected inwater and electricity saving, solidwaste classification and recycling, green consumption, persuading others to protect the environment, paying attention to and participating in the formulation of environmental protection policies (Barr 2007, Sanquist et al 2012, Li et al 2020).”

“In addition, we suggest, similarly to Barr (2007), in case of car trips practicalities might be more important than ideas about environment or climate change.”

“Individu dengan pengetahuan yang kuat tentang lingkungan akan memiliki sikap dan kesadaran yang tinggi terhadap permasalahan limbah (Barr 2007).”

“Niat beli sebagai suatu keinginan untuk dapat memiliki suatu produk apabila niat tersebut didorong oleh pengaruh akan mutu dan kualitas dari suatu produk dan adanya informasi yang mendukung keberadaan produk tersebut (Barr, 2007).””

“Environmental consequences of behaviors have also been found to influence household behaviors such as waste reduction, reuse of items, recycling actions, and green buying (Barr, 2007; Mainieri, Barnett, Valdero, Unipan, & Oskamp, 1997; Roberts, 1996).”

“Economic mechanisms, such as fines and subsidies, may impact recycling, but Barr (2007) points out that psychological factors affect individual buying decisions, as well as product use and waste disposal, and thus might play crucial role in sustainable waste management.”

“, 2002; Barr et al., 2001; Tonglet et al., 2004). Correlations between recycling and a variety of variables have been examined in studies about recycling. The fact that there is a correlation between the socioeconomic levels of individuals and their recycling behaviors has also been noted by studies (Oskamp et al., 19…”

“Given increasing amounts of waste being generated as a consequence of rapidly developing economies, sustainable household waste management has become an important concern for local and national authorities worldwide [18], whereas [19] call for psychologists to play a more concerted role in promoting behavioural change…”