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Motivations and Barriers to Recycling: Toward a Strategy for Public Education.
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Simmons, Deborah; Widmar, Ron – Journal of Environmental Education, 1990
This article outlines the results of a study of household recycling conducted in Somerset County, New Jersey, and describes some of the forces that seem to encourage recycling behavior. The results suggest that people must be both motivated and capable of overcoming barriers to recycling. (CW)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, Conservation Education, Environmental Education
Implications of Attitude and Behavior Research for Environmental Conservation.
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Newhouse, Nancy – Journal of Environmental Education, 1990
Discussed are the determinants of environmentally responsible behavior, the attitude-behavior discrepancy problem, how environmental attitudes are formed and changed, and the effects of individual differences on appropriateness of educational techniques. (CW)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, Behavior Change, Change Strategies