Can Airport and Social Waste Reduction Measures Have a Synergistic Impact on Passenger Behavior?

Abstract

As an integral part of urban functions, waste reduction behaviors inside the airport and outside in society form a linkage mechanism that influences each other, but the coupling mechanism between the two is not clear. In this study, we constructed a model of the interaction between airport and social waste reduction behaviors and explored the effects of internal airport factors and external social factors on airport waste reduction behaviors. The results show that both internal and external factors have a significant positive effect on passengers’ behavior, with publicity and education, social norms, and laws and regulations having a greater effect. Airport internal factors (such as internal facilities, publicity and education and environmental stimulus) and social external factors (such as social norms and laws and regulations) can form a better positive feedback mechanism for waste reduction, and path coefficients for both interactions exceed 0.7. Airport publicity and education can directly improve passengers’ waste reduction behaviors, and better promote the continuation of these behaviors in society. It is recommended connecting the publicity and education activities between airports and society. The social external factors are more likely to affect the behavior of airport management, and it is recommended that the design of airport management should be made more effective in developing countries that have weaker awareness of and worse social attitudes towards for waste reduction.