A Student Led Investigation of the Landscape Dynamics of Campus Recycling

Brandon C. McBride, Cheryl L. Scott, David L. Kulhavy, I-Kuai Hung and Daniel R. Unger

Higher Education Studies, 2019, vol. 9, issue 1, 110-117

Abstract: Two senior undergraduate students within the environmental science division at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) quantitatively diagnosed the environmental, ecological, and socioeconomic dynamics involved in plastic recycling. This study incorporated actively collecting recycled plastic bottles on campus to produce an enumerated analysis of recycling on campus; and to gain an understanding of the socioeconomics of recycling via an anonymous survey used to determine the recycling knowledgebase of natural resource students at SFASU. Undergraduate students, via their incorporation into a campus wide environmental site assessment of recycling plastic bottles, were able to apply their classroom knowledge to a real-world environmental concern thus making them more well-rounded and society-ready environmental scientists.

Keywords: university; conservation; natural resources; plastic bottles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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