Journal
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
Volume 164, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105146
Keywords
Digital waste management; User engagement; Internet of Things; Publicity improvement; Text data mining
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China under the programme: AI + Waste to Resources Management toward Sustainable City
- project Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory - SPIL by Czech Republic Operational Programme Research and Development, Education, Priority 1: Strengthening capacity for quality research [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000456]
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Household waste segregation and recycling are important in waste management but face challenges due to dependence on social behaviors. Integrating IoT and social media subscription accounts is proposed as an effective publicity approach. The study suggests that current household waste management publicity is propagandist-centric rather than user-centric.
Household waste segregation and recycling is ranked at a high priority of the waste management hierarchy. Its management remains a great challenge due to the high dependency on social behaviours. The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and subscription accounts on social media platforms related to household waste management could be an effective and environmentally friendly publicity approach than traditional publicity via posters and newspapers. However, there is a paucity of literature on measuring social media publicity in household waste management, which brings challenges for practitioners to characterise and improve this publicity pathway. In this study, under an integrated framework, data mining approaches are employed or extended for multidimensional publicity analytics using the data of online footprints of propagandist and users. A real-world case study based on a subscription account on the WeChat platform, Shanghai Green Account, is analysed to reveal useful insights for personalised improvements of household waste management. This study suggests that the current publicity related to household waste management leans towards propagandist-centred in both timing and topic dimensions. The identified timing, which has high user engagement, is 12:00-13:00 and 21:00-22:00 on Thursday. The overall relative publicity quality of historical posts is calculated as 0.95. Average user engagement under the macro policy in Shanghai was elevated by 138.5% from 2018 to 2019, during which the collections of biodegradable food waste and recyclable waste were elevated by 88.8% and 431.8%. Intelligent decision support by publicity analytics could enhance household waste management through effective communication.
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