Retail shopping centre recycling initiatives

There is growing pressure on retailing businesses to act responsibly and comprehensively to manage their waste in a sustainable way. In addition, the practical importance of meeting waste directives and environmental credentials has made most businesses value facilities management services to busine...

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Published in:Journal of retail & leisure property 2010-08, Vol.9 (3), p.201-210
Main Authors: Baharum, Mohamad Rizal, Pitt, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business and Management
By products
Environmental stewardship
Facilities management
Landfill
Original Article
Recycling
Resource recovery
Retailing industry
Shopping centers
Statistical analysis
Studies
Success factors
Sustainability
Trends
Waste disposal
Waste management
Waste materials
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Summary:There is growing pressure on retailing businesses to act responsibly and comprehensively to manage their waste in a sustainable way. In addition, the practical importance of meeting waste directives and environmental credentials has made most businesses value facilities management services to business. Despite Fuller's and Pitt's observations concerning shopping centre waste management trends, little attempt has been made to investigate the existing solid waste recycling from the UK shopping centre sector. Most previous research on waste minimisation through recycling relates to municipal buildings, commercial office buildings, medical facilities, hotels, educational buildings and industrial buildings. Few studies from other sectors have developed critical success factors (CSFs) for waste management and recycling initiatives. Therefore, this article sets out to identify those primary factors that are considered to be of critical importance to the successful implementation of recycling initiatives in UK retail shopping centres. The article establishes how these factors can be determined and validated in accordance with current perspectives. This article reviews the relative importance of CSFs associated with shopping centres solid waste recycling initiatives in the United Kingdom. By doing so, factoring analysis is used to classify a relatively small number of factor groupings that can be used to represent the relationship among a set of many interrelated variables. This technique is significant to explore the groupings that might exist among the CSFs with regard to UK retail shopping centre solid waste recycling initiatives.
ISSN:1479-1110
1750-2098
1750-2098
DOI:10.1057/rlp.2010.10