Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning (농촌계획)

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An Analysis of the Determinants of the Collection Rate of Agricultural Plastic Waste

영농폐비닐 수거율 결정요인 분석

  • Yi, Wooell (National Agricultural Cooperative Federation) ;
  • An, Donghwan (Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • 이우엘 (농협중앙회) ;
  • 안동환 (서울대학교 농경제사회학부, 농업생명과학연구원)
  • Received : 2019.04.03
  • Accepted : 2019.08.18
  • Published : 2019.08.30
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Abstract

It is widely known that agricultural plastic waste incineration by farmers may cause big forest fire or fine dust in rural areas. Hence, how to increase the rate of collection and recycling of the agricultural plastic waste is of concern to policy makers especially for rural environment. The purpose of this study is to find the determinants of the collection rate of agricultural plastic waste. This study used the data from 'Research on Agricultural Waste' by the Korea Environment Corporation from year 2012 to 2015 for 163 regions. This study found that the compensation rate for collection, the frequency of collecting services, and the quality of waste are important to increase the collection rate. And the regions with more elderly and low income people are more likely to have higher collection rate. Finally, the chief producing regions that are specialized in a certain crop shows higher collection rate.

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