TY - GEN
T1 - Human Factors in Waste Reduction Design: A Case Study on Using Garbage Bags Under Waste Charging Policy in Hong Kong
AU - Wong, Yi Lin
AU - Lo, Chi Hang
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support provided by the Environment Protection Department of Hong Kong for the data collection and preparation of the paper. The authors thank The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for its manpower support for the research. Mr. Joe Chau had also given great assistance for the fieldwork.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Hong Kong has an extensive amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) disposing of in the landfills. To reduce MSW, the Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong had introduced two kinds of charging modes to the Legislative Council in 2018. Depending on the sizes and types of garbage, people can choose to be charged by designated garbage bags or weight. Considering the design and societal factors, this paper aims at investigating people’s waste disposal habits in Hong Kong. Taking Hong Kong as a case study, the paper discusses the potential issues and the design consideration of designated garbage bags. Five human factors, conveniency, benefit, cost, responsibility and risk, are identified for the design of designated garbage bags and the implementation of waste charging policy.
AB - Hong Kong has an extensive amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) disposing of in the landfills. To reduce MSW, the Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong had introduced two kinds of charging modes to the Legislative Council in 2018. Depending on the sizes and types of garbage, people can choose to be charged by designated garbage bags or weight. Considering the design and societal factors, this paper aims at investigating people’s waste disposal habits in Hong Kong. Taking Hong Kong as a case study, the paper discusses the potential issues and the design consideration of designated garbage bags. Five human factors, conveniency, benefit, cost, responsibility and risk, are identified for the design of designated garbage bags and the implementation of waste charging policy.
KW - Garbage bags
KW - Municipal solid waste
KW - Waste charging
KW - Waste reduction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112665988&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-79760-7_116
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-79760-7_116
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85112665988
SN - 9783030797591
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 971
EP - 981
BT - Advances in Ergonomics in Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021
A2 - Rebelo, Francisco
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - AHFE International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, 2021
Y2 - 25 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
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