

To change behaviour, households need information and feedback regarding their consumption, but in an era of information overload it is difficult to reach individuals. This thesis examined two areas, household electricity consumption and waste sorting, where behaviour plays a large role. To reach the 1.5-degree target set in the Paris Agreement, new interventions to influence household behaviours are needed. Over 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions derive from household consumption patterns. Social norms, transformative service research, sustainable consumption behavior, field study, pneumatic waste system National CategoryĮnvironmental Sciences Applied Psychology Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-323205 OAI: oai::kth-323205 DiVA, id: diva2:1729680Ģ023 (English) Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) Abstract Together, our results suggest that digital behavioral interventions based on novel data through ‘smart’ technologies can significantly improve households’ waste and recycling behavior, thereby presenting a pathway for increasing the service character of waste disposal and management that enables customers’ sustainability practices. Moreover, app users threw significantly more PW than households not using the app after but not before the intervention.
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did not) install the waste-oriented smartphone app, recycling rates of PW and NPW increased for all households as a function of the intervention. Using ‘smart’ waste chutes equipped with novel technology to collect objective data for municipal waste (MMW), plastic waste (PW) and newspaper waste (NPW) of 153 households over the course of 12 months, we find that while MMW levels remain stable and do not differ between households that did (vs. We conducted a longitudinal field study to investigate the influence of a scalable, app-based behavioral intervention building on social norms on households’ waste and recycling behavior in a multi- residential setting. However, the potential for sustainable waste service offerings remains untapped as existing research largely relies on estimated data, short study periods, and unscalable interventions. Improving households’ waste and recycling behavior is essential for achieving sustainable production patterns. (English) Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic) Abstract
