Analysis of Habits of Consumers Related to e-Waste Considering the Knowledge of Brazilian National Policy of Solid Waste: A Comparison among White, Green, Brown and Blue Lines

Patricia Guarnieri (), Barbara de Oliveira Vieira, Giselle Cappellesso, Solange Alfinito and Lucio Camara e Silva
Additional contact information
Patricia Guarnieri: Post-Graduate Programme in Management, Faculty of Economics, Administration, Accountancy and Public Policies, University of Brasília, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil
Barbara de Oliveira Vieira: Post-Graduate Programme in Management, Faculty of Economics, Administration, Accountancy and Public Policies, University of Brasília, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil
Giselle Cappellesso: Post-Graduate Programme in Management, Faculty of Economics, Administration, Accountancy and Public Policies, University of Brasília, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil
Solange Alfinito: Post-Graduate Programme in Management, Faculty of Economics, Administration, Accountancy and Public Policies, University of Brasília, Brasilia 70910-900, Brazil
Lucio Camara e Silva: Post-Graduate Program in Production Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, Caruaru 55014-900, Brazil

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: Background: The increase in waste generation, caused by technological innovation and planned obsolescence has demanded strategies such as reverse logistics to mitigate the negative impacts on the environment. Objective: This paper analyzes the differences in the consumer’s habits of the four lines of electrical and electronics, and the alterations in these habits considering the knowledge of legislation related to waste management. Methods: We conducted applied, exploratory, descriptive, and quantitative research. We performed a survey with Brazilian consumers of electrical and electronics equipment, through a questionnaire. To analyze data, we performed a logistic regression. Results: As the main results, we can highlight the probabilities of habits by line and the knowledge of legislation by habits, and confirm our study’s two hypotheses. The first was related to the analysis of whether specific consumer habits tend to relate to particular lines of equipment and the second analyzes whether these habits tend to relate to knowledge of the legislation. Conclusion: We found that, depending on the type of e-waste, the participants of our study have different habits related to disposal and reverse logistics, and those with knowledge of the BPSW tend to have appropriate habits related to discard and reverse logistics. This paper can be helpful because it discusses the existing differences in the habits of the participants considering the lines and knowledge of legislation.

Keywords: Brazilian Polity of Solid Waste; consumer habits; e-waste; electrical and electronic waste; WEEE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/18/11557/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/18/11557/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:18:p:11557-:d:915494

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().