Consumer behavior Driven Models to Improve Waste Mobile Phone Recycling

Abstract

 Abstract — The paper examines consumer behaviors with the existing business models in waste mobile phone recycling throughout the questionnaire which collected online and offline. The survey will conduct in Taiwan and Vietnam from college students by google forms online. It includes the existing business models which utilized some business models for making profits for producers like vending machines, monetary incentives or information technology solutions with logistic services to return their unused mobile phone back to recycling process or second hand market. Understanding this issues, people will have evidence to reduce the waste mobile phone directly and indirectly for the environment by making profit. The paper also investigates whether consumers would like to use second hand mobile phone or not. The results can help improve the policy-making for both producer and government related. The paper emphasizes on monetary incentives and IT solutions which included in environmental protection fees in the original price .