Research On The Influencing Factors Of Residents’ Domestic Waste Classification Willingness In Handan City

In recent years,the amount of domestic waste in China is increasing steadily,while the capacity of waste disposal is still insufficient.It has severely obstructed the development of constructing a harmonious and sustainable society.According to the waste disposal experience at home and abroad,the key to waste disposal lies in the end treatment of waste as well as waste classification.And the participation willingness of residents directly affects the implementation effect of the domestic waste classification policy.In June 2019,China has announced its first batch of 46 pilot cities for mandatory domestic waste classification,which covers the first-tier cities such as Beijing,Shanghai,Guangzhou and Shenzhen,as well as the second and third-tier cities such as Handan.But these second and third-tier cities lack experience of domestic waste classification compared with first-tier cities,and also there is a certain gap in terms of the quality of residents,the supervision mechanism,and the construction of the environmental sanitation management system.Therefore,it is more difficult to implement the domestic waste classification system.First,this thesis construct an index system from five dimensions,including the personal basic characteristics,personal attitude,subjective norms,perceptual behavior control and situational factors based on theories of behavior and willingness is about factors influencing the willingness of residents in Handan to classify domestic waste.Then,this thesis takes the residents in Handan as respondents,descriptive statistical analysis is performed on the data collected by questionnaire,and those indicators which are not significant in Cross contingency analysis and Chi-square test are removed.Finally,binary Logistic regression model is used to analyze the willingness of residents in Handan to classify domestic waste.The results show that:(1)Among the personal basic characteristics,people are more likely to participate waste classification with higher education level,while those who live in worse conditions have lower desire to classify domestic waste.(2)In terms of the personal attitudes,the improvement of residents’ environmental values and willingness to pay for waste classification will increase residents’ willingness to classify domestic waste.(3)In the subjective norms,the improvement of administrative measures and infrastructure construction will promote residents’ willingness to classify domestic waste.(4)In the perceptual behavior control,more degree of recognition about the standards and benefits of waste classification will contribute to residents’ willingness to classify domestic waste.The higher degree of recognition they have,the more likely they will engage domestic waste classification.(5)In the situational factors,more efforts to publicize policies will boost residents’ willingness to classify domestic waste.The more channels and mechanisms for publicity,the more likely residents will accept the behavior of domestic waste classification.At the same time,in order to improve residents’ willingness to classify domestic waste,this thesis puts forward specific suggestions from four perspectives,including awareness education,supervision mechanism,infrastructure construction and policy publicity.