Title
Recycling: Convenience or Conviction?
Department, Center, or Institute
Shi Center for Sustainability
Presentation Format
Individual Oral Presentation
Presentation Type
Internship
Description
Tyler Carlson has been an integral part of the university's recycling efforts for the last three years. Through this work he has come to have a unique and in depth understanding of our recycling habits as a community. This year, his interest in the reasons behind people's recycling behavior has culminated in a question: Convenience or conviction? Will we go out of our way to recycle because we believe that recycling is the right thing to do or are we simply motivated to recycle when it is easy? Find out the answer to this question and gain a better understanding of what we need to do to improve recycling rates within our university community.
Department Organized Oral Session Title
Table 3: The David E. Shi Center for Sustainability
Moderator/Professor
Center for Engaged Learning (Staff), Internship Office
Session Number
6
Start Date and Time
4-9-2019 3:00 PM
Location
PAC Hallway
Recommended Citation
Carlson, Tyler, "Recycling: Convenience or Conviction?" (2019). Furman Engaged!. 171.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furmanengaged/2019/all/171
Recycling: Convenience or Conviction?
PAC Hallway
Tyler Carlson has been an integral part of the university's recycling efforts for the last three years. Through this work he has come to have a unique and in depth understanding of our recycling habits as a community. This year, his interest in the reasons behind people's recycling behavior has culminated in a question: Convenience or conviction? Will we go out of our way to recycle because we believe that recycling is the right thing to do or are we simply motivated to recycle when it is easy? Find out the answer to this question and gain a better understanding of what we need to do to improve recycling rates within our university community.