Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Florida State University.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1984 Summer;17(2):127-45. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1984.17-127.
Five studies were conducted over a 10-month period to determine the effectiveness of specific procedures in encouraging recycling among residential neighborhoods. Results indicated that: (a) initial levels of participation in neighborhoods were frequently related to housing values; (b) weekly recycling pick-ups that coincided with garbage collection days resulted in higher levels of participation than pick-ups that occurred at other times; (c) notifying homes about the recycling program through distributed door-to-door brochures was more effective than soliciting participation through newspaper ads; (d) distributing containers to help residents separate recyclable from nonrecyclable material proved to be an effective procedure, especially when combined with frequent prompting (prompting alone did not have much effect); and (e) procedures that facilitated the greatest levels of participation were not always cost-effective. The subsequent combination of these procedures into a package program resulted in high levels of neighborhood participation that were cost-effective and maintained over a 6-month period.
五项研究在十个月的时间内进行，以确定特定程序在鼓励住宅区回收方面的有效性。结果表明：(a) 社区参与的初始水平通常与住房价值有关；(b) 与其他时间相比，与垃圾收集日同时进行的每周回收会导致更高的参与度；(c) 通过分发挨家挨户的小册子通知家庭有关回收计划比通过报纸广告征求参与更为有效；(d) 分发容器以帮助居民将可回收物与不可回收物分开是一种有效的程序，特别是当与频繁提示相结合时（单独提示没有太大效果）；(e) 并非所有最能促进参与的程序都具有成本效益。随后将这些程序组合成一个一揽子计划，导致了成本效益高且持续六个月的社区高参与度。
