Document Type
Honors Presentation
Abstract
Who is doing the "dirty" work when it comes to recycling? In my own family, I watched as my mother eventually gave up recycling. Although it was something she wanted to do, the burden fell solely upon her shoulders after my sister and I left for college. And the attack of course wasn't that my father wasn't helping her with recycling, but simply that our community didn't help her to recycle, meaning that in our community there was no curbside recycling. However, the real problem wasn't entirely that there wasn't curbside recycling, but that because recycling fell almost entirely upon one person and because it was one thing that didn't have to get done, well it didn't. The problem seemed to be that as recycling became more a part of society, it didn't become a task that was equally shared among members of households, or at least not in my family.
Publication Date
2003
Journal Title
Conference Proceedings: Undergraduate Social Science Research Conference
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
156
Last Page
169
Copyright
©2003 by the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Publisher
University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Recommended Citation
Holliday, Amy and Mack, Kristin
(2003)
"Who's Doing the Dirty Work When It Comes to Recycling?,"
Conference Proceedings: Undergraduate Social Science Research Conference: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 37.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/csbsproceedings/vol7/iss1/37
