Green products are among the widely used products worldwide due to their environmental benefits. However, information on the consumers’ purchase intention towards green products in developing countries, such as Thailand, is lacking. This study aims to investigate Thai consumers who are aged over 18 years, and whose base education is high school, on purchase intention for green products by using an extended framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). We derived and examined the model through structural equation modeling in a sample of 483 respondents in Thailand. The findings of this model indicated that consumer attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control have significant positive influences on the purchase intention for green products. Furthermore, our results indicated that environmental concerns have a significant effect on attitude, perceived behavioral control and purchase intention for green products, but subjective norm. Moreover, environmental knowledge had no significant effect on the purchase intention for green products. Instead, it had a distinct indirect effect through attitude towards purchasing green products, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control. The findings from this study contribute to improving the understanding of intention to purchase green products, which could play a major role towards sustainable consumption.

Application of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model to Investigate Purchase Intention of Green Products among Thai Consumers

Examining green consumerism motivational drivers: does premium price and demographics matter to green purchasing?

Theory of planned behavior approach to understand the green purchasing behavior in the EU: A cross-cultural study

Many environmental strategies relying on a mere improvement of resource productivity and eco-efficiency of processes and products are not able to fully address the environmental impacts induced by increasing consumption. In addition to these strategies, the concept of sustainable consumption calls for changing the levels and patterns of consumption, which require complimentary approaches. However, so far, there has been a noticeable lack of strategies that conceive ways of shifting from a material-intensive consumer culture to a society with less materialistic aspirations. This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the current debate, research trends and main outcomes relating to the area of sustainable consumption. It is based on the study commissioned by the Swedish EPA and focuses on current research streams and activities of main stakeholders. It identifies and discusses the gaps in the existing range of initiatives and policy instruments towards sustainable consumption. (Less)

Sustainable consumption progress: should we be proud or alarmed?

Reinforcing green competitive advantage through green production, creativity and green brand image: Implications for cleaner production in China

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Motivations for promoting the consumption of green products in an emerging country: exploring attitudes of Brazilian consumers

The purpose of this paper is to present possible strategic actions that aim to recover the value still remaining in industrial waste.,The research method is a multiple case study. The sample included six Brazilian companies of the footwear, metal-mechanics, pulp and paper, beverages, chemical and food industries. The study investigated the production process, waste generation, internal reuse, the destination of unused waste, difficulties and strategic challenges.,Possible strategies to recover the value remaining in industrial waste are increasing the internal reuse, developing new routes to other industries, reducing the waste generation, increasing the destination to cooperatives or recycling companies, which require studies to understand the legislation and agility in licensing and reducing the logistical cost of the destination.,The study relies on six case studies. Further research shall encompass an entire industry, starting with hypotheses derived from the cases.,The main barriers observed for reuse and recycling are uncertainties and ambiguities in the interpretation of legislation, the difficulty for the environmental licensing for recycling operations, excessive logistics costs for exploration opportunities and the lack of research to reduce the waste generation and to increase the internal reuse.,Waste managed by scavengers’ cooperatives can offer jobs to the people of vulnerable communities.,The study offers robust hypotheses to be tested in a survey on the capacity of a waste management strategy to create competitive advantage in the industry. The study establishes a relationship between waste management and three competitive enablers, compliance, corporate image and green market.

Strategies for value recovery from industrial waste: case studies of six industries from Brazil

Analysis of the contribution of waste sorting plants to the reverse processes of supply chains.

The objective of the article was to analyze the functioning of two cooperatives that provide processed waste required by industries in the city of Sao Leopoldo, RS. The research method was the double case study. Two out of the six cooperatives in operation in the city were studied. Documentation of the cooperative and produced by the municipal public authority were consulted, non-participant observations and interviews with the Presidents of cooperatives were made. One of the cooperatives receives only materials from selective collection, while the other receives the entire home collection. The cooperative that receives selected stuff, despite being more recent and less structured, provides more income to their members. The material recovered by both cooperatives is sold to intermediaries who give scale to the operation and sell to industry as recovered raw material. It was concluded that the role of cooperatives in the reverse chain is to retrieve post-consumer materials and act as a supplier of raw materials for industry. Additionally, cooperatives play social role to low-income communities, by providing jobs and income alternatives, and environmental role, by contributing to the reduction of pressure on landfills and incineration of municipal solid waste.

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Francieli Aparecida de Almeida

Papers

Motivations for promoting the consumption of green products in an emerging country: exploring attitudes of Brazilian consumers

Strategies for value recovery from industrial waste: case studies of six industries from Brazil

Analysis of the contribution of waste sorting plants to the reverse processes of supply chains.

Waste collectors cooperatives and reverse logistics networks: double case study