Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, The University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom.
Chemosphere. 2021 Jul;274:129750. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.129750. Epub 2021 Jan 28.
To tackle the crisis associated with the rising commercial food waste generation, it is imperative to comprehend how corporates' recycling behaviour is influenced by different industry structures and economies. This study aims to fill in the information gap that various factors might be affecting corporates' recycling behaviour in two different economies due to environmental inequality by comparing upper-middle-income region (Malaysia) and high-income region (Hong Kong), respectively. A questionnaire survey regarding food waste management according to the Theory of Planned Behaviour was conducted with representatives coming from diverse industries of the hotel, food and beverage, and property management. The questionnaire responses were evaluated based on quantitative structural equation modelling and correlation analysis. The analysis results showed that the model fit the data well, explaining 78% of the variance in recycling behaviour. The findings demonstrated that the most substantial factor on individual's recycling intention by Malaysian commercial food waste generators was perceived behavioural control, and logistics and management incentives. Subjective norms demonstrated significant and adverse effects on the behaviour of food waste recycling. The variable of administrative incentives and corporate support presented strong positive correlations with moral attitudes as well as logistics and management incentives. Hotel industries from both Hong Kong and Malaysia have a higher acceptance level on human resources regarding food waste recycling. In comparison, food and beverage industries from both regions have a lower acceptance level. These findings could enrich our knowledge of the concerns in establishing regional policy strategies to encourage economic behavioural changes for sustainable development.
为了解决与商业食品浪费日益增加相关的危机，了解企业的回收行为如何受到不同行业结构和经济的影响至关重要。本研究旨在通过比较中上收入地区（马来西亚）和高收入地区（中国香港），填补由于环境不平等，各种因素可能会影响两个不同经济体中企业的回收行为的信息空白。根据计划行为理论，对来自酒店、餐饮和物业管理等不同行业的代表进行了关于食品废物管理的问卷调查。根据定量结构方程模型和相关分析对问卷回答进行了评估。分析结果表明，该模型很好地拟合了数据，解释了回收行为 78%的变化。研究结果表明，马来西亚商业食品废物产生者个人回收意愿的最重要因素是感知行为控制以及物流和管理激励。主观规范对食品废物回收行为具有显著的负面影响。行政激励和企业支持这两个变量与道德态度以及物流和管理激励呈强正相关。来自中国香港和马来西亚的酒店行业在人力资源方面对食品废物回收的接受程度更高。相比之下，来自这两个地区的餐饮行业的接受程度较低。这些发现可以丰富我们对制定区域政策战略以鼓励可持续发展的经济行为变化的关注的认识。
