Abstract
Nowadays, eco-accounting is widely used in sustainable consumption and production. In order to incentivise consumers’ sustainable consumption and enhance their environmental awareness, a novel mobile based eco-accounting infrastructure has been developed by this research. It applies the eco-credit values to incentivise the consumer’s recycling activities and utilises the eco-cost values to record the consumer’s footprint obtained through consumption. The infrastructure consists of four modules: the consumer’s eco-account, eco-shopping, eco-recycling and eco-incentives. In order to implement the mobile eco-accounting infrastructure, multiple mobile technologies have been applied to develop the novel functions of the mobile app, including a new QR encryption algorithm, embedded Google maps, advanced Internet-based services and multi-language support. A case study is conducted by demonstrating the consumer’s purchasing and recycling processes. It proves that the novel mobile application system has been successfully developed, which provides an effective support for the implementation and demonstration of the eco-accounting infrastructure.
Highlights
Sustainable consumption is an important agenda in relation to global climate change and the reduction of human beings’ impact on the environment
Eco-accounting is used for the generation, analysis and use of financial and related non-financial information in order to effectively solve the problems encountered in the process of sustainable development [1,2]
With the wide application of mobile technologies, some mobile applications have been developed to provide mobile phone users with the eco-logical information of products and services to encourage their sustainable behaviours in various scenarios, such as estimating the users’ greenhouse gas emissions with their paired bank transactions data [18,19]; presenting the product information to consumers while grocery shopping [20]; encouraging car drivers to reduce traffic and its consequent impacts on the environment, climate change and human health [21]; scheduling appointments for solid waste collection in order to reduce environmental burdens mainly linked to the disposal procedures, and providing eco-feedback information, e.g., energy consumption, for householders [22]
Summary
Sustainable consumption is an important agenda in relation to global climate change and the reduction of human beings’ impact on the environment. With the wide application of mobile technologies, some mobile applications have been developed to provide mobile phone users with the eco-logical information of products and services to encourage their sustainable behaviours in various scenarios, such as estimating the users’ greenhouse gas emissions with their paired bank transactions data [18,19]; presenting the product information (e.g., price, expiry date, quality indicators) to consumers while grocery shopping [20]; encouraging car drivers to reduce traffic and its consequent impacts on the environment, climate change and human health [21]; scheduling appointments for solid waste collection in order to reduce environmental burdens mainly linked to the disposal procedures, and providing eco-feedback information, e.g., energy consumption, for householders [22] Those mobile applications demonstrate a means of interacting with consumers to encourage sustainable behaviour and have proven to enable efficient sharing and communication with up to date eco-logical information for consumers.
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