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Recycling has emerged as a critical global environmental and economic issue. Recycling helps achieve primary sustainability goals, including better waste management and climate change mitigation. This study tackles the research gap on how place identity and natural bonding affect recycling decision-making. The research investigates citizens' recycling intention by incorporating place identity and natural bonding into an extended norm activation model (NAM). The study proposes that openness to change, awareness of consequences, environmental concern, personal norms, and attitudes are responsible for place identity and natural bonding's indirect effect on citizens' recycling intention. Based on 815 survey responses, hypothetical claims were examined using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that place identity and natural bonding indirectly affect citizens' recycling intention through personal norms, awareness of consequences, and attitudes. Place identity also indirectly affects citizens' recycling intention, mediated by openness to change and environmental concern. The expanded NAM helps comprehend place identity and natural bonding's role in citizens' recycling intention. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Range satisfaction and "refueling" of battery electric vehicles (EVs) have become a major challenge hampering consumer acceptance. Battery Swap Technology (BST) is a trusted option in mitigating these obstacles. Available studies are yet to explore the psychological determinants of consumers' BST adoption intention. In addressing this gap, this study used a framework encompassing the technology acceptance model (TAM), theory of planned behavior (TPB), perceived risk, and knowledge in investigating consumers' adoption intention of BST using structural equation modeling. With responses from Chinese consumers in the Jiangsu province (n = 405), the results revealed that the structural model had a better fit and explanatory power (R2 = 0.58). Perceived usefulness, attitude, subjective norm, and knowledge positively influenced adoption intention towards battery swap technology. Perceived risk was negatively linked to attitude, perceived usefulness, and adoption intention, whiles perceived behavior control (PBC) was insignificant towards BST adoption intention. Also, knowledge fully mediated PBC and adoption intention. The findings confirmed that consumers' adoption intention differed by gender, family size, and residency type. The study provides meaningful policy implications to stakeholders to enhance adoption and enriches the understanding of consumers' adoption intentions in the context of battery swap technology. • Chinese' residents adoption intention of battery swap technology was investigated • Assessed the explanatory power of TPB, TAM, and structural model • Key constructs influencing BST adoption intention were assessed • Mediating effects of knowledge was investigated • ANOVA analysis of respondents was explored [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]