Design For Society

Notes and Research in Notepad

And these are two charts that I made using the results of the survey after two days. The first one is of the actual results and the second is how it should look if everyone knew what can be recycled and can't be recycled.

for Books and glass milk bottles they all got it wrong. The object that got the most not sure's was foil, and bricks and rubble, aerosols, window pane, engine oil,  juice and milk cartons, fridges etc, hearing aids, light bulbs, yoghurt pots and light bulbs all got at least one 'not sure'. Some people don't think you can't recycle aerosols, soil, foil, engine oil, batteries and fridges etc of which you can for all of them! And then some people think you can recycle books, bricks and rubble, glass milk bottles, window panes and hearing aids when you can't!

Notice I haven't mentioned Light Bulbs and on the second graph it has both yes and no, this is because certain type of light bulbs you can recycle and some you can't. Maybe I should have put the different types of bulb on the survey, this would have given me a clearer understanding as to whether they knew what light bulbs they can and can't recycle. 

Overall I think that it's perfectly clear that there is a lot of confusion amongst people as to what they can and can't recycle, and this needs resolving by educating them about it.