This paper tests whether visual nudges help direct attention towards existing instructions designed to increase waste sorting accuracy. The study was conducted in a quasi-experimental setting over a period of 9 weeks in two buildings of a large UK university campus. Two treatments on recycling behaviour were tested against a control group: one considered the impact of visual nudges in the form of human eyes; the other one combined human eye with pre-existing sorting instructions. Results show that for mixed recycling the combination of visual and information nudges decreased sorting errors by 7 percentage points. In contrast, visual nudges alone increased sorting errors by 4.5 percentage points. These findings indicate that, when combined, information and a visual nudge are cost-effective tools to significantly improve waste sorting behaviour. This paper adds to existing experimental evidence based on neuroscientific theories.


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    Titel :

    Improving recycling sorting behaviour with human eye nudges


    Beteiligte:
    Lotti, Lorenzo (Autor:in) / Barile, Lory (Autor:in) / Manfredi, Giovanni (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-06-22


    Anmerkungen:

    Scientific Reports , 13 (1) , Article 10127. (2023)


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch


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    DDC:    629