The Impact of Environmental Knowledge on Recycling Intention: The Mediating Role of Perceived Behavioural Control

Abstract

Currently, sustainability goals are the prior aim to be achieved by any organization as the united nation called to apply sustainability practices to be achieved by 2030. Recycling is one of the main extracted strategies from SDG 12 that countries try to increase and rely on landfills. Therefore, this study aims to measure the impact of environmental knowledge (EK) on recycling intention (RI); in addition, it tries to explore the mediation role of Internal perceived behavioural control (IPBC) and External perceived behavioural control (EPBC)). The research used a quantitative approach through distributing an online questionnaire to people in Egypt in order to examine the research variables. Number of 416 valid responses were analyzed using SPSS through conducting Bootstrapping method to analyzed the mediation role. The findings showed that environmental knowledge has a direct impact on recycling intention; moreover, the mediation role of Internal perceived behavioural control and External perceived behavioural control is rejected. This proves that increasing the environmental knowledge will enhance the behaviours of the societies. Furthermore, will grab the societies’ attention to apply the sustainability practices in the future. Future studies need to consider recycling activities, especially in developing countries, and to improve the awareness and behaviour levels.