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State and local pressures drive plastic pollution compliance strategies
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Willis, KA and Hardesty, BD and Wilcox, C, State and local pressures drive plastic pollution compliance strategies, Journal of Environmental Management, 287 Article 112281. ISSN 0301-4797 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112281
Abstract
Environmental harm from plastic pollution partly results from compliance failure at the individual level. Three
prevalent non-compliant motivations for polluting plastics include economic gains, ignorance of the rules and
unlikely penalization from inadequately enforced rules. Given compliance is primarily the responsibility of local
waste management, we conducted interviews to gain insights to the factors driving changes in the crucial onground
controls of plastic pollution. We expand on non-compliant motivations and provide a theoretical
framework to test the aforementioned. We show that compliance strategies are strongly driven by state judicial
and economic controls, specifically new plastic legislation and levies. Furthermore, the priorities of waste
managers and the socio-economics and population density of their constituents drove changes in local management
efforts. Our findings support the view that the growing global attention on plastic pollution shapes not
only what happens at a state level, but also importantly on-ground at the local level.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | plastic pollution, municipal government, compliance strategies, policy change, situational crime prevention, theory of planned behaviour, economic rationality |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Policy and administration |
Research Field: | Environment policy |
Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
Objective Group: | Environmental policy, legislation and standards |
Objective Field: | Environmental education and awareness |
UTAS Author: | Willis, KA (Ms Kathy Willis) |
UTAS Author: | Hardesty, BD (Dr Britta Hardesty) |
UTAS Author: | Wilcox, C (Dr Chris Wilcox) |
ID Code: | 150458 |
Year Published: | 2021 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
Deposited By: | Directorate |
Deposited On: | 2022-06-16 |
Last Modified: | 2022-06-16 |
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