Omotayo, Abiodun OlusolaOmotoso, Abeeb BabatundeDaud, Adebola SaidatOgunniyi, Adebayo IsaiahOlagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi2020-12-152020-12-152020-10-01Omotayo, A. O., Omotoso, A. B., Daud, A. S., Ogunniyi, A. I. and Olagunju, K. O. (2020) ‘What Drives Households’ Payment for Waste Disposal and Recycling Behaviours? Empirical Evidence from South Africa’s General Household Survey’, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. MDPI AG, 17(19), p. 7188. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17197188.1660-4601https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197188Publication history: Accepted - 22 July 2020; Published - 1 October 2020.Safeguarding the environment and its citizens’ health remains one of the key policy priorities of the governments of many developing and emerging countries. Using the 2017 General Household Survey (GHS) dataset, this study examines the driving factors a ecting households’ recycling behaviour and payment for waste disposal in South Africa. The methods of data analysis were based on descriptive statistics and a Bivariate Probit regression model. The descriptive statistics results indicate that there are 56.29% male-headed and 43.71% female headed households, with an average age of 49 years. In addition, the study shows that 89.97% of household heads had formal education with a mean monthly income of 11,099.07 ZAR/650.504 USD. The study also revealed that 22% of the households sampled had access to social grants. The results from the Bivariate Probit regression model show that household’s income, access to social grants, formal educational attainment and the age of the household were significant (p < 0.01) driving factors a ecting households’ recycling behaviour and payment for waste disposal. The study concludes that the households’ socio-economic factors a ect their recycling behaviour and willingness to pay for waste management in South Africa. Actions targeted at poverty alleviation and environmental sensitization programmes are key for facilitating environmental conservation behaviours of households in South Africa in order to achieve the environmental sustainability Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target of the United Nations.en© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).environmental safetyrecycling behaviourrefuse disposalBivariate Probit modelSouth AfricaArticle