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Pro-environmental behavior regarding single-use plastics reduction in urban–rural communities of Thailand: Implication for public policy

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Oluseye Oludoye, Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Nuta Supakata, Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Sarawut Srithongouthai Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Sarawut Srithongouthai Stephan Van den Broucke, Sarawut Srithongouthai Lanrewaju Ogunyebi, Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Lanrewaju Ogunyebi, Nuta Supakata, Mark Lubell, Vorapot Kanokkantapong, Sarawut Srithongouthai

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Researchers surveyed urban and rural residents in Thailand to understand what drives people to reduce single-use plastic use, finding that moral values better explained behavior in city residents while practical reasoning was more influential in rural communities. The findings suggest that plastic reduction policies should be tailored to community context, emphasizing ethics in cities and rational incentives in rural areas.

The study investigates residents' behavior towards reducing the use of single-use plastic (SUP), specifically in the context of food packaging. The widespread view holds that pro-environmental behavior (PB) results from a person's moral and rational deliberations. In reducing single-use plastic (SUP) consumption and waste, the relative roles of rationality and morality models in validating PB among rural and urban residents are not yet clear. In this empirical study, we compared the relative efficacy of two models for explaining people's SUP reduction behavior: the theory of planned behavior (TPB; rationality) and the value belief norm (VBN; morality). We investigated Thailand's rural (Sichang Island) and metropolitan (Nonthaburi city) areas. As a result, we surveyed people living on Sichang Island (n = 255) and in Nonthaburi city (n = 310). We employed structural equation modeling (SEM) for data analysis in this study. Findings showed that while morality better justified all the study participants' SUP reduction behavior, rationality underpinned behaviors of rural residents, while morality better explained the actions of city residents. We discussed future theoretical development and a policy roadmap based on these findings.

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