Increasing recycling with charitable incentives

IF 6.1 1区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Journal of Environmental Psychology Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102444
Grant E. Donnelly, Samantha N. Mertens, Nicole Sintov
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Many businesses have moved toward a circular economy, collecting their packaging material from customers to be reintroduced into their remanufacturing processes. For these programs to be successful, individuals must voluntarily, and often effortfully, dispose of their used materials in specific ways. The goal of the present research is to evaluate the effectiveness of charitable incentives in promoting effortful recycling. We explore whether the type of charitable recipient – human or non-human – differently promotes effortful recycling, and examine how people's environmental values may moderate these effects. Five studies (N = 3572) utilizing real disposal decisions and consequential disposal intentions demonstrate that when individuals are informed that by recycling an item a donation will be made to a non-profit organization, effortful recycling increases—an effect that is observed for both environmental and youth recipients (Studies 1–4b). However, an environmental charitable recipient was less motivating for people who had less concern for the environment (Studies 3 and 4b). We find that an environmental charitable recipient increases effortful recycling because of an enhanced perception of making an impact, while a youth charitable recipient increases effortful recycling through greater empathy (Studies 4a and 4b). We conclude that efforts to increase material recovery using charitable incentives can be effective, and should carefully consider the values of their intended audience along with charitable recipient type.
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通过慈善激励措施提高回收利用率
许多企业已经开始向循环经济转型,从客户那里收集包装材料,然后将其重新投入到再制造流程中。要使这些计划取得成功,个人必须自愿地,而且往往是努力地,以特定的方式处理废旧材料。本研究的目的是评估慈善激励措施在促进努力回收方面的有效性。我们探讨了慈善受助者的类型--人类或非人类--是否会在不同程度上促进努力回收,并研究了人们的环境价值观会如何缓和这些影响。五项研究(N = 3572)利用实际处置决策和随之而来的处置意向证明,当个人被告知回收物品后将向非营利组织捐款时,努力回收会增加--无论是对环保型还是青年型受助者,都能观察到这种效应(研究 1-4b)。然而,对于那些不太关注环境的人来说,环保慈善受助人的激励作用较弱(研究 3 和 4b)。我们发现,环保型慈善受助者会提高努力回收的积极性,这是因为他们增强了产生影响的感知,而青少年慈善受助者会提高努力回收的积极性,这是因为他们产生了更大的共鸣(研究 4a 和 4b)。我们的结论是,利用慈善激励措施来提高材料回收率的努力可能是有效的,但应仔细考虑其目标受众的价值观以及慈善受助人的类型。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Environmental Psychology is the premier journal in the field, serving individuals in a wide range of disciplines who have an interest in the scientific study of the transactions and interrelationships between people and their surroundings (including built, social, natural and virtual environments, the use and abuse of nature and natural resources, and sustainability-related behavior). The journal publishes internationally contributed empirical studies and reviews of research on these topics that advance new insights. As an important forum for the field, the journal publishes some of the most influential papers in the discipline that reflect the scientific development of environmental psychology. Contributions on theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of all human-environment interactions are welcome, along with innovative or interdisciplinary approaches that have a psychological emphasis. Research areas include: •Psychological and behavioral aspects of people and nature •Cognitive mapping, spatial cognition and wayfinding •Ecological consequences of human actions •Theories of place, place attachment, and place identity •Environmental risks and hazards: perception, behavior, and management •Perception and evaluation of buildings and natural landscapes •Effects of physical and natural settings on human cognition and health •Theories of proenvironmental behavior, norms, attitudes, and personality •Psychology of sustainability and climate change •Psychological aspects of resource management and crises •Social use of space: crowding, privacy, territoriality, personal space •Design of, and experiences related to, the physical aspects of workplaces, schools, residences, public buildings and public space
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