Mobile phone waste disposal willingness: A case of Shanghai, China

DOI

10.2991/etmhs-15.2015.214How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Waste mobile phone; disposal willingness; influential factors.

Abstract

A large amount of waste mobile phone has been one of key environmental issues in China as well as the whole world. To improve the recycling rates of waste mobile phones, it is necessary to investigate the influential factors of its recycling. This paper examines the disposal willingness of waste mobile phones for young consumers in Shanghai city, China. To this end, four treatment ways, i.e., storage, recycling, discarding and donation, are considered. The results show that more consumers in Shanghai prefer storing their waste mobile phones rather than recycling them. The influential factors are identified based on the survey analysis and policy suggestions for enhancing waste mobile phone recycling rate are also provided.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yiwen Bian
AU  - Miao Hu
AU  - Yage Wang
PY  - 2015/03
DA  - 2015/03
TI  - Mobile phone waste disposal willingness: A case of Shanghai, China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Education Technology, Management and Humanities Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 966
EP  - 969
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/etmhs-15.2015.214
DO  - 10.2991/etmhs-15.2015.214
ID  - Bian2015/03
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