10.2190/5TL9-EPP9-XKV1-3KJT 5TL9EPP9XKV13KJT 5 Using Behavioral Procedures to Establish an Elementary School Paper Recycling Program 149 156 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 5TL9EPP9XKV13KJT.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=5TL9EPP9XKV13KJT 2 Charles D. Hamad Robert Bettinger Donald Cooper George Semb University of Kansas An elementary school recycling program was developed in which students could deliver paper when they arrived at school each day. For a period of eight-months, feedback, goal setting and self-recording conditions were evaluated. The largest quantity of paper was recycled during the goal setting condition and the greatest number of students participated when they recorded their own participation. The impact newspaper recycling had on energy consumption was estimated and the advantage of using the school system as an "agent' for wide scale recycling operations is discussed. Environmental Protection Agency, Second report to Congress, <i>Resource and Recovery and Source Reduction</i>, (SW-122), Office of Solid Waste Management, 1974(a). K. A. Shuster, Fuel Conservation in Solid Waste Management, <i>Virginia Town and City</i>, December 1974. Environmental Protection Agency, <i>Resource Recovery and Source Reduction</i>, (SW-117), Office of Solid Waste Management Programs, 1974 (b). J. Witmer and E. S. Geller, Facilitating Paper Recycling: Effects of Prompts, Raffles, and Contests, <i>Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 9</i>, pp. 315-322, 1976. C. D. Hamad, D. Cooper and G. Semb, Resource Recovery: The Use of a Group Contingency to Increase Paper Recycling in an Elementary School, <i>Journal of Applied Psychology, 62</i>, pp. 768-772, 1977. D. H. Reid, P. D. Luyben, R. J. Rawers and J. S. Bailey, Newspaper Recycling Behavior: The Effects of Prompting and Proximity, <i>Environment & Behavior, 3</i>, pp. 471-482, 1976. NARI, Recycling Resources: A Guide to Effective Solid Waste Utilization, <i>National Association of Recycling Industries Publication</i>, 1973. R. G. Hunt and W. E Franklin, Environmental Effects of Paper Recycling, Paper presented at the 73rd National Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Aug. 27-30, 1972, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Reprinted by the Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.