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ArticleJournal of material cycles and waste management2023

What makes residents more willing to participate in source separation of waste masks under the COVID-19 pandemic?

Kaihan Cai, Wenlei Zeng, Qingbin Song, Yangyang Liang, Shaohong Peng, Jiaqi Hu, Jinhui Li

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Article in Journal of material cycles and waste management, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Effective waste management in service industry: Fuzzy-based modelling approach for strategic decision-making.Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Kaihan CaiMacao Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078 China.
Wenlei ZengNational Observation and Research Station of Coastal Ecological Environments in Macao, Macao Environmental Research Institute, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078 China.
Qingbin SongNational Observation and Research Station of Coastal Ecological Environments in Macao, Macao Environmental Research Institute, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078 China.ORCID 0000-0002-6902-6044
Yangyang LiangMacao Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, 999078 China.
Shaohong PengGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Pollution Process and Control, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, 525000 Guangdong China.
Jiaqi HuChina National Electric Apparatus Research Institute Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, 513000 China.
Jinhui LiSchool of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China.
Macau University of Science and Technology · MOChina National Electric Apparatus Research Institute (China) · CNGuangdong University of Petrochemical Technology · CNTsinghua University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the generation of a large amount of medical waste brought a rude shock to the existing solid waste management system. Since masks constitute the most common household medical waste under the COVID-19 pandemic, their effective collection and treatment can significantly reduce the potential risks for secondary transmission, and this concern has attracted worldwide attention. Taking Macau City as a case study, this research tried to identify factors that can influence residents' behavioral intentions toward the source separation of COVID-19 waste masks. The extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) model is used to examine the influence factors of the source separation behaviors of 510 respondents. The results show that the main factors that positively affected respondents' behavioral intentions toward waste-mask source separation are: cognitive attitude, convenience, and perceived behavioral control, and among these, cognitive attitude has the highest influence. Subjective norm is also proved to be the weak factor to improving behavioral intention. Policy advocacy, and demographic variables have no significant effect on behavioral intention. The results of this study can help decision makers and managers formulate effective strategies to increase residents' participation in the source separation of waste masks. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10163-022-01513-7.

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COVID-19 pandemicMacauSource separationTheory of planned behavior (TPB)Waste masks

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PMID36249570
PMCPMC9540058
OpenAlexW4303423768

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