Waste management and ecological behaviour in the Covid-19 era: from waste stigma to environmental citizenship
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https://doi.org/10.61007/QdC.2022.3.77Keywords:
waste management, waste, sostenibility, pandemicAbstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on the lives of citizens, leading them to recontextualise their relationship with the environment and their conception of waste management, a complex service sector whose mission can only be achieved through user co-participation (Lucarelli et al., 2020). This, however, is complicated by the presence of organisational stigma, i.e. a prejudice about the sector and the conduct of these types of organisations (Slutskaya et al., 2018). Waste management and urban decency are very hot topics because often, in some realities, the management of environmental services is not very effective, leading to a certain psychological distance of citizens from environmental issues: these, believing that urban decency depends univocally on waste management services, take responsibility for the consequences of their own behaviour (Lucarelli et al., 2020).
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