Make recycling more convenient and more people will comply, a UBC expert told CBC’s B.C. Almanac and Radio Canada.
“Awareness alone is not enough to change behaviour, we actually need to provide solutions, suggestions, alternatives to current practice so that people can actually change,” said Jiaying Zhao, an assistant professor at UBC’s Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the department of psychology.
One of Zhao’s suggestions is to move bins closer to people’s homes or offices, which could increase recycling and composting by at least 130 per cent.
