The Recycling of Container and Packaging Waste in the Spanish Retail Distribution Sector

Nuria Alcalde, Concepción Garcés, Marta Pedraja and Pilar Rivera

Environment and Planning A, 2005, vol. 37, issue 8, 1461-1477

Abstract: The authors analyse the determinants of the commercial container recycling behaviour of small and medium-sized companies in the retail-distribution sector of a representative Spanish city. A conceptual model is proposed, based on the literature on the incentives for and barriers to participation in selective collection programmes. By application of structural equation model methodology to a sample of 245 retail-distribution establishments, the main determinants of recycling were ascertained to be the perceived importance of the environmental problems and the perception of good management by public authorities. However, the free-rider attitude represents a barrier to participation.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1068/a36149

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