Springer Acta Medica Okayama 14384957 21 6 2019 Current status and behavior modeling on household solid-waste separation: a case study in Da Nang city, Vietnam 1462 1476 EN Vu Chi Mai Tran Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University Hoang Son Le University of Science and Technology, The University of Danang Yasuhiro Matsui Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University This study focused on household solid-waste recycling in Da Nang city, Vietnam to assess the existing separation behavior and clarify the factors influencing the separation behavior. The authors conducted a questionnaire survey for 150 households in 6 urban districts, which consisted of household attributes, separation behavior, and the household's attitude on recycling and the environment. The waste separation rates were determined for leftover food and 13 recyclable items and the recyclable disposal habit was also assessed. The separation rate of leftover food was 77.3%. Among 13 surveyed recyclable items, plastic bottles and metal cans were two popular items with higher separation rate (72.5% and 63.8%, respectively). To identify the conscious structure and determinants of separation behavior, the authors developed a predictive model on the separation behavior of leftover food and recyclables by logistic and multiple linear regression analyses. The positive factors included behavior intention, sympathy for the collector, incentive brought by recycling, goal intention, internal norm, and perception of responsibility and seriousness. The negative factor was evaluation of trouble. The authors also analyzed the differences in separation rates among attributes. Based on the significant influence factors and attributes, the authors suggested how to promote separation behavior. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

岡山大学環境理工学部 Acta Medica Okayama 1341-9099 12 1 2007 A Study on the Assessment of Management Frameworks for Waste Electronic Home Appliances 51 61 EN Masaru Tanaka Yasuhiro Matsui 10.18926/fest/11434 Serious adverse impacts on the environment and human health from the recycling and disposal of electronic waste have occurred in the past and continue to occur in China today, due to the lack of a national management strategy. With aiming to support the management strategy development, a study was carried out to plan and quantitatively evaluate the optional management frameworks for the selected five main types of large electronic home appliances in Beijing, the capital city and a typically big municipality in China. This paper outlined the main findings yielded from the series of assessment studies which started from the generation amount prediction and material flow analysis of the used electronic appliances, planning and optimization of the collection & transportation frameworks and ended at the economic evaluation of the optional recycling processes for the waste appliances. Although the revenue could be expected from the result of isolated evaluation of the recycling processes, the entire system will be economically unavailable if the used appliances are still collected from the owners at current prices. The traditional understanding of householders on the values of their used appliances should be changed in Beijing and China as a whole. Establishment of a formal collection system that could take back the used appliances at lower prices (less than 40% of the current level) is the key for the construction of a formal management framework with sustainability. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

Acta Medica Okayama 2001 循環型廃棄物処理システムの構築を支援する評価手法に関する研究 EN No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.