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{"title":"The second life of food by-products: Consumers’ intention to purchase and willingness to pay for an upcycled pizza","authors":"Giulia Chiaraluce ,&nbsp;Deborah Bentivoglio ,&nbsp;Alessia Del Conte ,&nbsp;Maria Raquel Lucas ,&nbsp;Adele Finco","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>One of the challenges that Europe has undertaken is the transition from a linear economic system to a circular economy, where waste and resources are recovered and regenerated. The practice of upcycling in the agri-food sector represents one of the most promising solutions to the enormous problem of food waste. However, the information available to consumers about foods made with upcycled ingredients is still scarce, limiting their acceptance and creating a critical barrier to their success in the market. The objective of this study is to determine the factors that affect Italian consumers’ intention to purchase and willingness to pay for a specific upcycled food enriched with a high-value vegetable by-product by applying a logit model, an interval regression, and a contingent valuation. Results show that knowledge about upcycling and the circular economy is still limited. Innovative consumers who are already aware of upcycling, who are not food neophobic, and who have a positive opinion of recycling are more willing to purchase upcycled products. At the same time, women who are already aware that the food industry produces considerable quantities of waste and who have a positive image of recycling are more willing to pay for a specific upcycled food. Finally, our sample proved to be willing to pay a premium price for an upcycled frozen margherita pizza. An informed consumer, aware of the environmental and health benefits of upcycled products, may become more willing to purchase them and to pay more compared to the same conventional products.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000317/pdfft?md5=6f4b9637e40e7dd92077a9180122b2fc&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000317-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141416355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does the government's sustainable consumption policy enkindle sustainable consumption behaviors in the consumer public?","authors":"Muhammad Zafar Yaqub ,&nbsp;Rana Muhammad Shahid Yaqub ,&nbsp;Sadia Yaqub Khan ,&nbsp;Muhammad Murad","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainable consumption is increasingly considered critical for the sustainable growth of developing countries. Consequently, these countries exert significant efforts to foster sustainable consumption behaviors among the consumer public to maximize their sustainability outcomes. This research, while making appeals to the sustainable consumption theory and the stakeholder theory, aims to determine the role of a few critical antecedents, namely the attitude of consumers towards sustainable consumption, their overall satisfaction with the consumption of sustainable products/services, consumers' environmental knowledge and sustainable consumption promotions together with social media influence in engendering sustainable consumption behaviors among consumer publics, along with the role of governments' sustainable consumption policies in enabling such effects. After performing PLS-based structural equation modeling on 500 data points, we found a significant positive role in the consumers' attitude towards sustainable consumption, their sustainable consumption promotions, the impact of social media, and the environmental knowledge possessed by the consumers in inducing sustainable consumption behaviors. In addition, the mediating effects of sustainable consumption promotions and the instrumental role of the government's sustainable consumption policy have also been empirically substantiated. Besides contributing to advancing the body of knowledge encompassing sustainable consumption and sustainable growth/development, the study puts forward several practical implications for the consumers, practitioners, and public policymakers to transmogrify sustainable consumption behaviors by influencing consumers' attitudes, enhancing their environmental knowledge and social media enabled discourse enkindled by an efficacious sustainable consumption policy put in place by the government.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000299/pdfft?md5=e0061256982b43ee1e6322f92b0f4b44&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000299-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141322752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic justification of recycling in the processing industry","authors":"Viktoriia Roleders ,&nbsp;Tetyana Oriekhova ,&nbsp;Galina Zaharieva ,&nbsp;Inna Sysoieva ,&nbsp;Vasyl Dobizha ,&nbsp;Sergii Pidhaiets ,&nbsp;Lesia Kucher","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article outlines the prerequisites for implementing the principles of the circular economy in the activities of enterprises in the processing industry, and defines the peculiarities of the circular economy functioning. The absolute dynamics of environmental pollution were investigated, the average annual rate of increase in the volume of pollution, structural shifts in the use of waste by region, and the environmental friendliness of the products of the processing industry were analyzed. The methods of assessing structural changes make it possible to determine the nature of the changes that occurred within the hierarchy of priorities. On the other hand, methods of scenario analysis changes in the environmental pollution amount per unit of production of the processing industry were applied. The concept of closed ecological and economic cycle development in the processing industry is proposed, which combines modern practical experience of the circular economy implementation and economic and mathematical methods and models, allows to perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the proposed measures on the environment and to adopt reasoned more balanced decisions. Recommendations for the implementation of the ecological and economic cycle in the processing industry of Ukraine were provided.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000287/pdfft?md5=c721852f4542029520bf5ea3c378f9d9&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000287-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141239912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-creation of urban agriculture through participatory processes in residential building environment: Insights from Finland","authors":"Julia Johansson ,&nbsp;Marja Roitto ,&nbsp;Bodo Steiner ,&nbsp;Laura Alakukku","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the face of an increasingly global climate and food system crisis that unfolds alongside increasing urbanization, the importance of identifying novel ways of producing food in urban areas and linking this to achieving multiple sustainability objectives has increased. Previous evidence from Finland suggests that the growth in popularity of urban farming is driven by an interest in revitalizing the city, developing a sense of community, and increasing awareness about the value of food. These motives have encouraged different levels of governance to participate in developing urban agriculture (UA) in Finnish cities. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the suitability, benefits, and obstacles to the co-creation of UA in residential areas with housing companies. The results indicate that flexible module-based planning and availability of key site actors and factors (access to information and irrigation) are crucial to achieving UA's benefits. Additional benefits in the apartment building environment were perceived in terms of social capital, with respect to community-building, enhanced living comfort, and enhanced quality in the living environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000305/pdfft?md5=a5d3c47e7ea237160b27051f6812b218&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000305-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141281084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advancing towards greener healthcare: Innovative solutions through single-use mask waste to refuse-derived fuel utilization","authors":"Mega Mutiara Sari ,&nbsp;Takanobu Inoue ,&nbsp;Natasya Hikmat Putri ,&nbsp;Iva Yenis Septiariva ,&nbsp;Rachmat Mulyana ,&nbsp;Wisnu Prayogo ,&nbsp;Nur Novilina Arifianingsih ,&nbsp;I Wayan Koko Suryawan","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The healthcare sector faces increasing challenges in managing the environmental impact of single-use masks and medical waste, prompting the exploration of innovative solutions for greener healthcare. This study investigates converting single-use mask waste into Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) as a sustainable waste management approach. A quantitative analysis assessed the average waste generation of single-use masks in a healthcare facility over three months. The potential RDF production was estimated by calculating single-use masks' weight and calorific value. Additionally, Thermogravimetric Analysis was employed to evaluate the thermal behavior of RDF and its suitability as an alternative fuel source. The findings indicate an average monthly waste generation of 41,555 masks weighing 111.2 kg. RDF production from single-use mask waste yields a daily output of 3.706 kg, providing a promising solution to reduce medical waste. TGA analysis reveals a multi-step degradation process for RDF, with a significant mass loss between 300 and 500 °C, rendering it a viable renewable energy source. Converting single-use mask waste into RDF presents an opportunity for healthcare institutions to contribute to net-zero emission goals, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and embracing sustainable waste management practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000275/pdfft?md5=74e62c6f44b4ea601e83e44f8b18ad03&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000275-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141058196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating factors that influence the purchase behaviour of green cosmetic products","authors":"Siphiwe Dlamini,&nbsp;Vimbai Mahowa","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The escalating global concerns regarding sustainable development issues have transformed the landscape of consumer behaviour, urging businesses to incorporate green practices and raise awareness among consumers. There is an ongoing debate concerning attitude-intention and product category gap. The study aims to bridge this gap by investigating the green cosmetic purchase behaviour of female consumers in South Africa by exploring factors such as awareness, product information, product availability, environmental concern, perceived barriers, perceived price, and attitude. The study employs the alphabet theory, previously utilised in qualitative research, to quantitatively examine the relationship between various factors and green cosmetic purchase intention. By applying this theory, the study contributes to its expansion and offers a unique framework for understanding consumer behaviour in the green cosmetic industry.</p><p>This study collected data by conducting an online and face-to-face survey with 295 South African consumers. The results revealed that perceived price and attitude significantly influence the purchase intention of green cosmetic products amongst females in South Africa. While awareness, product information, product availability, environmental concern and perceived barriers needed a mediating variable (attitude) to influence the purchasing intention of green cosmetic products of female consumers in South Africa. The study highlights the practical implications for marketers by providing insights into designing effective green marketing strategies. The study's findings can aid marketers in tailoring their communication and developing a targeted green marketing mix that resonates with female consumers in South Africa.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000238/pdfft?md5=e9229b67cda2a78bef85b9414c9b28a1&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000238-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140905749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of consumers in the adoption of R-strategies: A review and research agenda","authors":"Ricardo Zimmermann ,&nbsp;Ana Inês ,&nbsp;Gustavo Dalmarco ,&nbsp;António C. Moreira","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The circular economy is increasingly being considered as a potential model to replace the prevailing end-of-life approach by establishing a closed-loop flow. The importance of different supply chain (SC) actors in this process has been recognized as a critical aspect of the development of sustainable production-consumption models. Consumers play a crucial role in this context, as they have a dual function: ensuring the correct disposal of used products; and consuming products from circular sources. However, the different roles consumers play (refuse, rethink, reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, recycle, recover) in circular SCs are still unclear. Through a systematic literature review, this paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the influence of consumers on the adoption of circular supply chain (CSC) practices and to identify the main drivers and barriers regarding the adoption of circular practices. The results demonstrate that the topic is recent and has gained ground in the literature. An in-depth qualitative analysis was carried out with the 74 papers identified and shows that the most commonly addressed R-strategies are reuse, recycle and repair. The main motivations and challenges towards a greater adoption of circular practices are related to (or lack of) environmental beliefs and financial benefits.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000263/pdfft?md5=051b3a0ce5d8d4f9c5671de8e35be832&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000263-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Behavioural determinants of the healthcare providers in Ukraine: Focus on competition context","authors":"Lyudmila Beztelesna ,&nbsp;Pawel Marzec ,&nbsp;Olha Pliashko ,&nbsp;Viktoriia Vovk ,&nbsp;Sergii Khomych ,&nbsp;Lesia Kucher ,&nbsp;Anatolii Kucher","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The development of the healthcare system is an important task for every country, given that long-term economic and social development is absolutely impossible without a healthy nation. Therefore, improving public health and ensuring that the maximum number of people have access to quality healthcare services is one of the state's strategic priorities. In this regard, the authors of the paper set a goal to establish how the reform of the healthcare system in Ukraine has led to changes in the behavioural determinants of healthcare providers and recipients in the domestic healthcare market. The paper uses such research methods as comparison, visualization, graphical data visualization tools, and statistical methods of data analysis. The study revealed that Ukrainian citizens got a chance to freely choose their physicians by signing declarations with them, which led to increased competition among physicians and other doctors and healthcare facilities; at the same time, the number of declarations signed with private healthcare facilities increased significantly. Furthermore, the developed econometric model allows us to identify statistically significant relationships between the amount of state funding and lifestyle and environmental indicators, which will allow us to improve the mechanisms and amount of funding in the sector, improving the health of the nation in the new competitive environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000251/pdfft?md5=b61d7e0631e951101be07af263e06386&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000251-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140894725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When ‘fear factors’ motivate people to adopt electric vehicles in India: An empirical investigation of the protection motivation theory","authors":"Chayasmita Deka ,&nbsp;Mrinal Kanti Dutta ,&nbsp;Masoud Yazdanpanah ,&nbsp;Nadejda Komendantova","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climatic extremes have caused immense harm around the world. Its harm in terms of the proportion of people and regions affected continues to increase every single day. Due to people's psychological distance from such climatic threats, active initiatives are not undertaken for mitigation of its source. Rather, localized short-term solutions are marking a new status-quo. This study examines if fear can be used as a motivator to nudge people away from the psychological distance and motivate them to adopt electric vehicles (EVs). While subsidies and tax rebates are popularly adopted means to boost demand and supply of EVs, monetary incentives are costly to sustain for developing nations, amidst their diverse priorities. Instead, use of motivators like ‘fear’ is cheap, yet not much explored. Using the protection motivation theory, the study interviews 1112 Indian individuals, to examine if fear can nudge EV adoption. Using structural equation modeling and mediation analysis, the study finds that the expectation of personal harm from climatic threats can nudge one to actively mitigate the source of threat. Various aspects of threat and the associated coping processes that need to be triggered sequentially to nudge the formation of a pro-environmental intention to adopt EVs are also outlined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266678432400024X/pdfft?md5=9284cd788ee0880d213334001b6c581f&pid=1-s2.0-S266678432400024X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140644368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Citizens’ deliberation on solutions to fight urban household food waste and nexus with growing urban gardens: The case of porto metropolitan area in Portugal","authors":"Alexandra Ribeiro ,&nbsp;Lívia Madureira ,&nbsp;Raquel Carvalho","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100188","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Food waste is currently acknowledged as a major societal challenge, including the food waste at the household level estimated to be responsible for the wastage of one third of the food produced for human consumption. Hence, tackling household food waste (HFW) is gaining a momentum in societal and policy agendas accompanied by an increasing effort of the scientific community to deliver evidence to address the research gaps on the causes and on the solutions to address this multidimensional societal problem. The proposed solutions by published literature to mitigate HFW can be unfolded into four major types, actions to raise people awareness, participatory actions, economic incentives, and collective actions. However, there is little evidence on the household's assessment of the different types of actions and its combination. This paper contributes to this research gap by adopting an innovative participatory approach, using deliberative focus groups (DFG), and analyzing the collected data through content analysis resorting to the software Maxqda. We had conducted six DGF in the Porto metropolitan area before and during the pandemic COVID-19 crisis. Our results highlight the citizen's option for more holistic actions in comparison to separate actions as a way to effectively fight food waste at household level. Another finding of our study is that citizen's growing urban gardens found it the more effective way to reduce household food waste. These results suggest that urban policies and underlying legal frameworks should favor holistic solutions to incentivise fighting HFW and account for the urban gardens as a relevant part of the solution. In addition, the study has shown that qualitative deliberative citizen-led approaches show insightful to understand how common people perceive as alternative or complementary the different types of actions to fight HFW proposed by the literature review.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666784324000214/pdfft?md5=aaa490ae939e953a19d0b0684530df42&pid=1-s2.0-S2666784324000214-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140551754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}