New Blog 1: Recycling Computers

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Recycling Computers

“It’s partly about being seen to be green”, says Dr Dennis Nigbur, Psychology Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University (who in fact co-wrote the article mentioned above). “Part of it is a general sense that pro-environmental behaviour is something that’s important to the communities we live in and to humanity itself. The whole ‘climate change’ topic has been successful in making people aware of general environmental behaviours.” And it’s because of this, Nigbur says, that “people may still feel the need to present themselves in a more positive light than what their behaviour actually suggests”, thus creating the gap between reported recycling rates and actual recycling rates.