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Affect of Traces on Recycling

College canteen encouraging recycling of CDs, ink cartridges, old phones and batteries.

To what extent do the people putting objects in the boxes understand the cost or profits that can be made from what is recycled? For example phones that are re-furbished and shipped to another country to be re-sold. Can recycling behaviours be affected by communicating the use-flow of the objects? Will knowing what happens to that object after it is placed in the box affect the likelihood of it being placed there?

Writing from Tokyo | February 20, 2006 | Permalink