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Eduardo Cardadeiro, Roseta-Palma, C. & Tito Laneiro (2023). Encouraging household waste separation: can social comparison help?. ERBE- European  Review of Business Economics. III (1)

E. Cardadeiro et al.,  "Encouraging household waste separation: can social comparison help?", in ERBE- European  Review of Business Economics, vol. III, no. 1, 2023

@article{cardadeiro2023_1734977156651,
	author = "Eduardo Cardadeiro and Roseta-Palma, C. and Tito Laneiro",
	title = "Encouraging household waste separation: can social comparison help?",
	journal = "ERBE- European  Review of Business Economics",
	year = "2023",
	volume = "III",
	number = "1",
	doi = "10.26619/ERBE-2023.3.1.6"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Encouraging household waste separation: can social comparison help?
T2  - ERBE- European  Review of Business Economics
VL  - III
IS  - 1
AU  - Eduardo Cardadeiro
AU  - Roseta-Palma, C.
AU  - Tito Laneiro
PY  - 2023
SN  - 2184-898X
DO  - 10.26619/ERBE-2023.3.1.6
AB  - As more people move to urban areas, larger flows of solid waste are generated, bringing about
significant challenges in municipal solid waste management. Implications of management
failure can be serious for human health and for the environment, and landfills are not a
sustainable solution. European legislation makes it clear that business-as-usual is not good
enough and sets ambitious targets for the coming years. In Portugal, waste separation at source
is far below the desired levels, highlighting the need for policy change. Other authors have
attempted to stimulate resource conservation, especially for water and electricity, using social-
comparison nudges. In this paper, we describe a similar field experiment for waste, developed
in 6 parishes (“freguesias”) in the north of Portugal; treatment households received a message
comparing their parish’s per capita deposition of sorted waste in existing collection bins to that
of a neighboring parish or to higher environmental targets. Finally results, however, are
contradictory.
ER  -