title: Residents' preferences for household kitchen waste source separation services in Beijing: a choice experiment approach.
abstract: A source separation program for household kitchen waste has been in place in Beijing since 2010. However, the participation rate of residents is far from satisfactory. This study was carried out to identify residents' preferences based on an improved management strategy for household kitchen waste source separation. We determine the preferences of residents in an ad hoc sample, according to their age level, for source separation services and their marginal willingness to accept compensation for the service attributes. We used a multinomial logit model to analyze the data, collected from 394 residents in Haidian and Dongcheng districts of Beijing City through a choice experiment. The results show there are differences of preferences on the services attributes between young, middle, and old age residents. Low compensation is not a major factor to promote young and middle age residents accept the proposed separation services. However, on average, most of them prefer services with frequent, evening, plastic bag attributes and without instructor. This study indicates that there is a potential for local government to improve the current separation services accordingly.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Environmental Economics, Graduate School of Bio-resources and Bio-environmental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan. yalin-yuan@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Yalin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Environmental Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan. yabe@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Mitsuyasu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yabe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002681:China; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011639:Public Opinion; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D012923:Social Class; D018505:Waste Management / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*