Effects of an Educational Glass Recycling Program against Environmental Pollution in Spain

Miguel Ángel Aguilar-Jurado, Pedro Gil-Madrona, Juan Francisco Ortega-Dato and David Zamorano-García
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Miguel Ángel Aguilar-Jurado: Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Studies, University of Castilla-La Mancha, University Campus of Albacete, 02071 Albacete, Spain
Pedro Gil-Madrona: Faculty of Education, University of Castilla-La Mancha, University Campus of Albacete, 02071 Albacete, Spain
Juan Francisco Ortega-Dato: Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Studies, University of Castilla-La Mancha, University Campus of Albacete, 02071 Albacete, Spain
David Zamorano-García: Faculty of Education, University of Castilla-La Mancha, University Campus of Albacete, 02071 Albacete, Spain

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 24, 1-16

Abstract: In this article, we analyzed the effects of an educational glass recycling program on primary schools and their students in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). A sample of 89 schools, with 20,710 elementary students, was selected by simple random sampling. For the statistical analysis, descriptive techniques (frequencies and statistics), parametric (One Way ANOVA test), and non-parametric (Chi-Square test) inferential techniques were used, with a 5% significance level ( p < 0.05). The program’s results showed that 153,576.3 kg of glass (with a value of 17,064.03 €) were recycled. Significant determinants of glass recycling were: School category ( p = 0.043), previous environmental/recycling education ( p = 0.046), geographic location of school ( p = 0.030), gender ( p = 0.007), and academic year ( p < 0.05). With the program, students learned the importance of glass recycling, obtained a greater knowledge of and habits related to the same, acquired favorable attitudes towards the environment, and promoted glass recycling in their social circles. We conclude that environmental education about glass recycling has positive effects on glass recycling attitudes and behaviors in elementary school students and may be used as a measure to combat the problem of environmental pollution.

Keywords: pollution; glass recycling; environmental education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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