Measuring individual skills in household waste recycling: Implications for citizens' education and communication in six urban contexts

What is it about?

This paper reports the analysis of six urban contexts in which a practical tool measuring individual skills concerning household waste recycling was tested. The tool is a structured questionnaire including a simulation task that assesses respondents’ abilities to sort household waste adequately in a given context/municipality. Results indicate that the questionnaire can reach good levels of internal coherence and discrimination capacity and it can be administered together with a set of open ended and closed questions to assess relationships with other relevant factors. Both the theoretical and applicative potentials of the instrument to educational and communicational domains are discussed.

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Why is it important?

It is one of the few publications that have tested a measure for assessing actual recycling skills