The role of digitization: an empirical study on the prediction and impact of changes in waste separation behavior in China

IF 7.1 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL

Waste management Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI:10.1016/j.wasman.2025.114861

Lichi Zhang , Yanyan Jiang , Junmin Wu

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Abstract

Digitalization has subtly affected all aspects of people’s lives, including waste separation. This study explores how the role of digitization affects the behavior of mass waste separation, establishes the behavioral role of waste separation in the context of digitization through the theory of planned behavior, further subdivides the role of digitization into digitization practices and digitization quality, and constructs a research model of digitization’s impact on mass waste separation behavior. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and fit the model to the questionnaires of the 611 respondents. The results show that digital practice and digital quality have a positive and significant relationship with waste behavioral intention. In contrast, digital practice has a considerable mediating and chain-mediating effect on the relationship between digital quality and waste separation behavioral intention. These findings provide good theoretical support for the role of digitization in mass waste separation and practical guidance for developing waste separation in the context of digitization.

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数字化的作用：中国垃圾分类行为变化预测及影响的实证研究

数字化潜移默化地影响着人们生活的方方面面，包括垃圾分类。本研究探讨了数字化作用如何影响海量垃圾分拣行为，通过计划行为理论建立了数字化背景下的垃圾分拣行为作用，并进一步将数字化作用细分为数字化实践和数字化质量，构建了数字化对海量垃圾分拣行为影响的研究模型。采用结构方程模型对数据进行分析，并对611名被调查者的问卷进行拟合。结果表明，数字化实践和数字化质量与浪费行为意愿之间存在显著正相关关系。相比之下，数字化实践对数字化质量与垃圾分类行为意愿之间的关系具有相当大的中介和链式中介作用。这些研究结果为数字化在垃圾分类中的作用提供了良好的理论支持，并为在数字化背景下开展垃圾分类提供了实践指导。

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Waste management 环境科学-工程：环境

CiteScore

15.60

自引率

6.20%

发文量

492

审稿时长

39 days

期刊介绍： Waste Management is devoted to the presentation and discussion of information on solid wastes,it covers the entire lifecycle of solid. wastes. Scope: Addresses solid wastes in both industrialized and economically developing countries Covers various types of solid wastes, including: Municipal (e.g., residential, institutional, commercial, light industrial) Agricultural Special (e.g., C and D, healthcare, household hazardous wastes, sewage sludge)