Environmental waste: recycling attitudes and correlates

A Likert-type scale was developed and used to measure attitudes toward recycling among 452 male and female undergraduates. The instrument had high pan-whole correlations and satisfactory reliability. There was a predictable relationship between attitudes toward recycling and attitudes toward environmental issues, rights issues, and political participation.
Solutions to the increasingly serious problem of environmental waste in the United States are at least partially dependent on attitudes about recycling. In their comprehensive review of the literature, Van [...]