Psychological and conditional factors influencing staff's takeaway waste separation intention: An application of the extended theory of planned behavior

With the increasing application of online to offline food delivery service, “Office building besieged by online-to-offline takeaway waste” becomes new and serious problems to the sustainability of Chinese cities. This paper examined the determinants of waste separation intention of takeaway waste among 487 urban residents by using the extended theory of planned behavior. Three additional factors were added into the Theory of Planned Behavior model: environmental concern, facilities and time pressure. The empirical results indicated that the attitude, perceived behavioral control, facilities was significantly and positively related to the waste separation intention. While the relationship between time pressure and intention was significantly negative. And the attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control towards separation of food takeaway waste partially mediated the effects of consumers' environmental concern on the intention. The result also supported the applicability of including additional constructs in theory of planned behavior, as it had improved the predictive utility of the proposed model. At the end, implications for concerned stakeholders and scope for further research had been discussed.