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Socio-demographic determinants of municipal waste generation: case study of the Czech Republic

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Increasing pressure of the European Union on diverting municipal waste from landfills requires an active role of households and commands a radical change of their behavior. Knowledge of behavioral patterns enables an effective design of municipal waste management systems. Based on several factors influencing environmental behavior, this paper aims at analyzing differences in municipal waste generation among Czech municipalities using socio-demographic factors. A set of 12 characteristics for 5445 Czech municipalities was investigated. Using ordinary least squares regression, we developed a model with eight indicators describing household size, gender, completed education level and diverse housing characteristics. Even though the model explains only 5.1% of waste generation variability among Czech municipalities, it is statistically significant. Other factors such as age or population density do not improve the model significantly. The resulting model will be used as a basis for further spatial analysis.

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This paper is supported by the Czech Science Foundation under project no. 16-14409 “Demographic development and behavioral aspects (e.g., ‘crowding-out’ effect) and their impact on the municipal waste charging policy”.

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  1. Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Prague, Czech Republic

    Kristýna Rybová, Boris Burcin & Tomáš Kučera

  2. Faculty of Social and Economic Studies, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Moskevská 54, 400 96, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

    Jan Slavík

  3. Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Lipová 507/41a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jana Soukopová

  4. Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Prague, Czech Republic

    Alena Černíková

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Rybová, K., Slavík, J., Burcin, B. et al. Socio-demographic determinants of municipal waste generation: case study of the Czech Republic. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 20, 1884–1891 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-018-0734-5

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