Waste Diversion Ontario, 4711 Yonge St., Suite 1102, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Waste Manag. 2013 Mar;33(3):508-18. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.12.007. Epub 2013 Jan 10.
Recycling is becoming ever more important as waste generation rates increase globally. Policy-makers must decide which recycling practices to implement from the host of options at their disposal to best divert waste from landfill. This study strived to determine the most important characteristics in recycling programs that were associated with higher material recovery rates, including bag limits, user pay programs, the number of materials collected, curbside collection frequency, promotion and education (P&E) activities, Best Practice principles, and the type of recycling collection stream. Data collected from 223 recycling programs in Ontario during 2005-2010 were used to perform multiple regression analyses. The findings of this study suggest that attributes of convenience are more important to encourage recycling than those that penalize disposal, thus providing important implications for waste policy-makers, both in Ontario and in other jurisdictions.
随着全球废物产生率的增加，回收利用变得越来越重要。政策制定者必须从他们可以利用的众多选择中决定实施哪些回收实践，以最好地将废物从垃圾填埋场转移出去。本研究旨在确定与更高的材料回收利用率相关的回收计划中最重要的特征，包括袋子限制、用户付费计划、收集的材料数量、路边收集频率、宣传和教育（P&E）活动、最佳实践原则以及回收收集流的类型。本研究使用了 2005-2010 年安大略省 223 个回收计划收集的数据来进行多元回归分析。这项研究的结果表明，鼓励回收的便利性属性比惩罚处置的属性更为重要，因此为安大略省和其他司法管辖区的废物政策制定者提供了重要的启示。
