The effect of a weekly comingled kerbside collection service on household recycling in a gated community in Pretoria, South Africa

dc.contributor.authorDu Toit, Jacques Louis
dc.contributor.authorWagner, Claire
dc.contributor.emailjacques.dutoit@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-12T10:09:07Z
dc.date.available2019-08-12T10:09:07Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-17
dc.description.abstractGated communities is a growing phenomenon in South Africa and abroad. The enclosed and private nature of gated communities poses certain challenges to recycling. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, we examine the effect of a weekly comingled kerbside collection service on household recycling in a gated community. We used an ex post facto design and surveyed and compared recycling behaviour across two separate, but comparable communities; Boardwalk Meander, with no service, and Silver Lakes, with a service. Factor analyses validated the construct ‘perceived behavioural control’ in both settings. Households in Silver Lakes were more than three times likely to recycle in comparison to Boardwalk Meander. Multivariate Analysis of Variance suggests that the service had an overall significant effect on attitude, subjective norm and control. Post hoc tests suggest that recyclers in Silver Lakes felt equally positive, but more pressured and able to recycle, as compared to recyclers in Boardwalk Meander. Significantly more recyclers and non-recyclers in Silver Lakes felt they had enough space to recycle, as compared to their counterparts in Boardwalk Meander, even though house and yard sizes were the same across the two settings. We conclude with policy, planning and design recommendations for facilitating comingled kerbside collection in gated communities.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPsychologyen_ZA
dc.description.departmentTown and Regional Planningen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainabilityen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDu Toit, J, & Wagner, C. 2018, 'The effect of a weekly comingled kerbside collection service on household recycling in a gated community in Pretoria, South Africa', Sustainability, vol. 10, no. 4, art. 1207, pp. 1-16.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.other10.3390/su10041207
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/70951
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherMDPI Publishingen_ZA
dc.rights© 2018 by the authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.en_ZA
dc.subjectComingled kerbside recyclingen_ZA
dc.subjectHousehold recyclingen_ZA
dc.subjectGated communityen_ZA
dc.subjectTheory of planned behaviouren_ZA
dc.subjectExploratory factor analysisen_ZA
dc.subjectMultivariate analysis of varianceen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africa (SA)en_ZA
dc.subjectPlanned behavioren_ZA
dc.subjectWasteen_ZA
dc.subjectSeparationen_ZA
dc.subjectSchemesen_ZA
dc.subjectEnvironmenten_ZA
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology articles SDG-11
dc.subject.otherSDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology articles SDG-12
dc.subject.otherSDG-12: Responsible consumption and production
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology articles SDG-13
dc.subject.otherSDG-13: Climate action
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology articles SDG-17
dc.subject.otherSDG-17: Partnerships for the goals
dc.titleThe effect of a weekly comingled kerbside collection service on household recycling in a gated community in Pretoria, South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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