FA1384 - Writing a Literature Review

A ​ (a)   of recent studies have ​ (b)   on cell phones recycling. ​ (c)   , we found no published study on cell phone recycling behavior by U.S. households

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​ (a)   data from 115 survey ​ (b)   , Nnorom et al. (2009) ​ (c)   that ​ (d)   two thirds of their respondents were willing to bring obsolete devices to a nearby drop-off recycling facility; ​ (e)   , half of their respondents agreed hypothetically to pay a 20 percent premium for “greener” cell phones

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Jang ​ (a)   Kim (2010) ​ (b)   cell phones reuse and recycling in ​ (c)   based on a ​ (d)   of 1090 consumers, visits to e-waste recycling facilities, and ​ (e)   with service providers and environmental regulators; their investigations suggest that from 2000 to 2007 only one third of the 14.5 million cell phones retired annually were collected.

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Jang and Kim (2010) analyzed cell phones reuse and recycling in Korea ​ (a)   on a survey of 1090 consumers, ​ (b)   to e-waste recycling facilities, and interviews with service providers and environmental regulators; their ​ (c)   suggest that from 2000 to 2007 only one third of the 14.5 million cell phones retired annually were collected.

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Ongondo and Williams (2011) ​ (a)   students’ cell phone disposal preferences at 5 U.K. universities. ​ (b)   of their 2287 respondents stockpiled unwanted phones, one third was unaware of recycling programs, and only 27 percent of the rest actually used them. Their ​ (c)   ​ suggest that incentives are ​ (d)   to spur cell phone recycling.

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A ​ (a)   of recent studies interested in consumer preferences for recycling e-waste also ​ (b)   TVs separately. This ​ (c)   , for example, Wang et al. (2011) for ​ (d)   ; Huang et al. (2006) for Ningbo, China; Song et al. (2012) for Macau, China; or Manomaivibool and Vassanadumrongongdee (2012) for Thailand.

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In ​ (a)   , Milovantseva and Saphores (2013) ​ (b)   on the storage of junk TVs by U.S. households; ​ (c)   found that past pro-environmental behavior is important for ​ (d)   the number of junk TVs stored at home, ​ (e)   socio-demographics including age, education, gender of the head of household, and geographic residence.

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Finally, the ​ (a)   of the digital transition on household TV disposal was investigated in the U.K. ​ (b)   Ongondo et al., (2011) before it took place, and after its ​ (c)   in the U.S. by Saphores and Milovantseva (2011) based on a nationally ​ (d)   sample of households. ​ (e)   studies suggest the e-waste impacts of the digital switch were ​ underestimated.

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Income and education have ​ (a)   been considered for explaining recycling but their ​ (b)   power is mixed as well. ​ (c)   to some studies, frequent recyclers tend to be more affluent and better educated (Barr, 2007; Clarke and Maantay, 2006), ​ (d)   others conclude that neither income nor education ​ (e)   a major role in explaining increased likelihood of recycling (Saphores et al., 2012; Meneses and Palacio, 2005; do Valle et al., 2004).

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In the ​ following , we ​ (a)   some recent papers to ​​ (b)   determinants of e-waste recycling and to ​ (c)   our modeling choices. We ​ (d)   with studies dealing with e-waste recycling for cell phones and TVs, before ​ (e)   studies that examine the impacts of beliefs, attitudes, behavior, and socio-demographics on household recycling.

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