Factors affecting take-up of and drop-out from home composting schemes

Local Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 245-259

  Tucker, P ^a   Speirs, D ^a   Fletcher, S I ^a   Edgerton, E ^a   McKechnie, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; DOMESTIC WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037934940     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549830306660     Document Type: Article

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