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- Holmberg, Ulrika, 1966, et al.
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Hide and seek - What enables and hinders households' battery recycling?
- 2015
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Ingår i: Paper presented at 23:rd Nordic Academy of Management Conference (NFF) in Copenhagen, August 12-14..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper examines the infrastructure, devices and practices involved in consuming, using, storing and discarding of batteries in households. The aim of the paper is to disclose the opportunities and obstacles, enabling and hindering effective battery recycling practices in households. The paper is informed by studies on material culture, home consumption and waste, and practices of everyday life. In order to study the organisational, material and cultural aspects of household battery recycling, a multi-local ethnographic study is designed – combining interviews, observations, and text analysis. The paper discloses how the coexistence of different batteryscapes (dark, darkish and bright batteryscapes) wherein people, infrastructure (point of collection), devices (batteries, electronics and storing equipment), socialisation and learning (norms and taboos) together give rise to both opportunities and obstacles, enabling and hindering recycling of batteries.
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- Holmberg, Ulrika, 1966, et al.
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Hide and seek - What enables and hinders households’ battery recycling?
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report examines the infrastructure, devices and practices involved in consuming, using, storing and discarding of batteries in households. The aim of the paper is to disclose the opportunities and obstacles, enabling and hindering effective battery recycling practices in households. The paper is informed by studies on material culture, home consumption and waste, and practices of everyday life. In order to study the organisational, material and cultural aspects of household battery recycling, a multi-local ethnographic study is designed – combining interviews and observations. The paper discloses how the coexistence of different batteryscapes (dark, darkish and bright batteryscapes) wherein people, infrastructure (point of collection), devices (batteries, electronics and storing equipment), socialisation and learning (norms and taboos) together give rise to both opportunities and obstacles, enabling and hindering recycling of batteries.
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- Stenbäck, Olle, 1983, et al.
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Why household batteries get stuck – bottlenecks, recycling practices, incentives and the value of information in the process of ‘un-stucking’ them
- 2020
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Ingår i: ESA RN5 – Midterm Meeting of the Research Network of Sociology of Consumption.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Why do portable batteries, when they’ve reached their end-of-life, linger in people’s homes, excluded from ordinary recycling routines? Is it because of their small size (the capability to hide them), or due to a lack of satisfactory recycling incentives? Portable batteries, in contrast to several other recyclable waste materials, seldom make themselves known. Their small size makes them mobile, which on-the-one-hand classifies them as recycling-friendly, but on-the-other-hand easy to stockpile and forget about. Stored away in the broom closet or a kitchen drawer, batteries can be described as transient, easily turned into socially invisible objects; small, odourless entities with no obvious affordance. Following this logic, batteries can be hidden in people’s homes for a vast period of time. Without a strong incentive, for example a taboo overshadowing the act of not recycling them [fast enough], engaging information, encouraging and user-friendly infrastructure, a reprisal or reward of some sort, portable batteries are not likely to be recycled at a faster pace. Drawing upon socio-material theories, we examine what makes people recycle portable batteries (or not). The findings include paradoxical observations, for example that average battery consumers – getting enough used batteries to fill a zip lock bag – is prone to recycle more seldom than consumers buying and using only a few batteries, which contest the idea of the importance of having a specific vessel for batteries. Adding new recycling practices in a “well-functioning” household is a slow-paced process. It requires a multi-facetted system of socio-material entities, pushing, guiding and nudging consumers to recycle. Household batteries are clearly only partly in the loop. If battery recycling was to be regarded as [more] important, valuable or even profitable for [all] actors involved, a larger amount of batteries would, conceivably, be recycled at a much faster pace.
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