Describe six of the eight psychological strategies that have been shown to be effective in promoting recycling

What will be an ideal response?

Answer will include a description of six of the following eight strategies: (1) Education. Learning about environmental problems and pro-environment values at school has been one of the most effective ways to encourage pro-environmental behavior. (2) Providing monetary rewards, such requiring refundable deposits on glass bottles, has been effective. (3) Removing barriers. Anything that makes recycling more convenient, such as curbside pickup of recyclables can help. (4) Using persuasion through media campaigns has been effective in increasing participation. (5) Obtaining a public commitment, such as having people sign "pledge cards" to recycle is effective because people who feel they have committed themselves to recycle are more likely to follow through and actually recycle. (6) Encouraging goal setting is effective because people who set their own goals for recycling tend to meet them. Goal setting has been used successfully with families, dorms, neighborhood, offices, and factories. (7) Giving feedback typically increases recycling when the feedback occurs on a weekly basis. Even impersonal feedback can be effective with one study showing that when signs were placed on recycling containers showing how many aluminum cans had been deposited in the previous week, recycling increased by 65 percent.