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Preference for green packaging in consumer product choices : Do consumers care?

Liisa Uusitalo
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In this paper, consumer environmental choice is studied by analysing the relative importance of green packaging when compared with other relevant product attributes. The empirical study is based on a choice-based conjoint analysis of preferences for functional drink products of a sample of 330 consumers using these products. Our choice-based approach on environmental behaviour brings new insights to previous research, which predominantly relies on attitude models. Results indicate that consumers differ in their preferences for packaging, brand, price and convenience of use of daily products. In addition, various distinctive consumer segments can be identified on the market. Contrary to several previous studies, we found that the largest consumer segment, one-third of consumers, favoured environmentally labelled packaging as the most important criteria in their choice. The findings emphasize the increasing importance of ethical and environmental dimension in product choices. We also propose that the attention in environmental consumer research should be shifted from general attitude studies towards the study of actual product choices.
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hal-02313351 , version 1 (20-03-2020)

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Joonas Rokka, Liisa Uusitalo. Preference for green packaging in consumer product choices : Do consumers care?. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 2008, 32 (5), pp.516-525 P. ⟨hal-02313351⟩

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