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3Rs.ca -- new recycling web portal

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Ruben Anderson Victoria Jun 14, 2011 19:01 pm
Does the URL to your recycling resource look something like: http://www.yourcitynamehere/engineeringservices/solidwasteandrecycling/blueboxschedule.htm ? Do you see lots of com…

Multi family recycling report

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Ruben Anderson Victoria May 4, 2011 18:46 pm
Here is the report from Phase One of our multi-family recycling pilot. Cheers, Ruben. Ruben Anderson Communications Specialist Metro Vancouver Canada

Successful Recycling/Garbage Civic Bldg. Collection

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Tamara Shulman Vancouver Apr 6, 2011 14:10 pm
Does anyone have best practices examples for juristictions using in-house staff and vehicles to collect materials from civic buildings? Successful program rollouts (beyond just…

Competitions and behavior change

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Kelley Dennings Arlington Apr 3, 2011 21:44 pm
Hello, Ive been asked to put together a recycling competition for K-12 schools (similar to Recycle Mania - http://recyclemania.org/). Does anyone have any research into the use …

Pay as You Go Garbage Collection Systems

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Stephan Kramp Midland Mar 27, 2011 22:26 pm
The County of Simcoe is considering introducing a pay as you go bag tag system. Rather that paying for garbage collection through a waste management levy issued to every town, ind…

Block Leader Recycling Campaign in Small Rural Community

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Unknown Mar 21, 2011 16:24 pm
Hi everyone, I am the recycling coordinator in a small rural community in northern canada. The society I work for is going to launch an info campaign to promote recycling, door …

Recycling Contamination

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Olga Fedianina Feb 5, 2011 19:37 pm
I`m researching about recycling contamination in multi dwelling homes. I`m looking for reasons this is more of a problem in apartment buildings than single homes. Moreover, some s…

Prompts or Communication Materials to increase Sorting & Decrease Contamination

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Unknown Dec 22, 2010 18:01 pm
The Township of Langley is starting an extensive recycling pilot in hopes of increasing participation and sorting rates, and decreasing contamination levels. We have a 3 stream pr…

Consumers' environmental Behavior: Generalized, Sector-Based, or Compensatory?

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Bratt, C. (1999). Consumers' environmental beahvior: Generalized, sector-based, or compensatory?. Environment and Behavior, 31(1), 28-44.
Investigated the possibility that actions meant to improve recycling may have unintended consequences in fields other than the target behavior. The relations between self-reported…

On the Risks of Recycling Because of Guilt: An Examination of the Consequences of Introjection

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Koestner, R., Houlfort, N., Paquet, S., & Knight, C. (2001). On the risks of recycling because of guilt: An examination of the consequences of introjection. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31(12), 2545-2560.
Examined the influence of introjected beliefs on proenvironmental behavior. 116 undergraduate students (aged 17-37 yrs) completed interviews concerning their recycling behavior an…

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