Does society motivate you to recycle goods?

Question

Does society motivate you to recycle goods?

Answer 1

Society????

it was a landlord that motivated me to recycle

my parent for newspaper

cans and bottles.

Answer 2

No,it's compulsory.People even get fines for placing recycled material in the wrong container.

Answer 3

Motivation on recycling goods depends on ourselves, what ever the society do is not going to be effective if we do not cooperate.

Answer 4

no.

they indirectly ask me to waste resource.

eg. on the aircon in colder degree

       (most of the public building include the government

        the air con is too cold. eg, cinema, liabrary ...)

        use paper as much as you can

        (always receive flyers, donation forms

          that is unused, some from the bank, some

           from the government..)

Answer 5

not really. I can recycle all my daily trash but it pours through my letterbox, mounts up in my supermarket trolley in the form of unwanted and unwarrented packaging and it almost seems as if i have become part of a cycle someone else invented. Yet if i dont fulfill my part in this cycle i am castigated and made to feel guilty for not doing my part for the environment. Is there something wrong here?

Answer 6

I grew up out in the country.  I always felt connected to the out-of-doors.  I was in elementary school when the had the first "earth day," and it was impressive to me that we actually needed to have a day to think about what I thought about all the time.

My family was not especially religious, and I am not, but I attended church services sporadically, and Bible School every summer.  I remember one year the "theme" for Bible School was being a good steward, and I connected to that passage in the Bible.  

Society at large gave me the background to be willing to recycle.  However, my best "motivation" comes from my two sons and the thought that one day I'll be a grandmother.

Answer 7

No, Himself makes me and if I put a recyclable into regular rubbish he digs through & takes it out!  He's a two legged blood-hound,  I swear he can sense when I've put recyclables in the wrong place.  I cover 'em up & Himself still will walk by the rubbish & suddenly start digging till he finds the recyclable I've hidden!

Answer 8

No its Government that does...Englands a prime example of recycling...we are all having to do it. In theory I agree...We all have to do our bit for the planet...Higher taxes for Gas guzzling vehicles, unleaded fuel cheaper than diesel....but in my local council they are going to add further charges for recycling our waste...what a liberty...when we already are paying through the nose...

Answer 9

I think it's habit with Me.

Answer 10

No, I motivate myself to recycle as it's something I enjoy doing.

Answer 11

no i do it anyway society shouldnt make you want to do things like this your mind should

Answer 12

We have our system here, but it is pathetic, there is so little that they will take.

Answer 13

society, h**l no!

I did a personal test, i went to ten different food stores and asked them not to give me plastic bags, and that i had my own canvas bags, all ten checkers, looked at me funny and thougth i was trying to be difficult. even the bagers were like "OMG, Why don't you want plastic bags".

most people do not recycle, - or atleats not in utah! Most people are so busy in their own little bubble to really care about whats going on with the world! and what needs ot be done.

Companies put tiny little symboles and message like "recycle" on their packaging, but most people don't.

Answer 14

in a word..

NO..

recycle is the new word for tax. if you say recycle or ozone friendly you can apply a tax to it and no one ever questions it!!! FACT

Answer 15

Ours is hypocritical, they will accept so little.

Dune and I live in the same city, so her answer is correct.

Our council/s are pathetic.

Answer 16

Yes, in a few different ways.

In Michigan, we used to have terrible pollution in the Great Lakes when I was a kid. The lakes, rivers and streams were full of beer cans and broken bottles, and enough people got tired of it that we protested and got a 10 cent deposit on pop and beer cans and bottles. Now, if someone litters a can, there is someone there to pick it up, because if you get 10 tin cans, you get a buck!

As far as all the other types of voluntary recycling, the "green" movement, Earth Day, and all the different articles I have read about how much better it is for the earth have motivated me to recycle more, buy less packaging in the first place, and grow a large organic garden, which we make our own compost for. It is definitely because of societal shifts over the decades....the world is much neater (litter wise) than it was 25 years ago. Most everyone I know recycles at least paper, cardboard and laundry jugs.

Sort of an additional fact:  My husband reminds me every time I go to pitch something we could reuse or recycle, by saying, "Don't you care about Declan's (my nephew) world?" That sticks in my head now.