Recycling gone bad: When the option to recycle increases resource consumption

Journal of Consumer Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 122-127

  Catlin, Jesse R ^a   Wang, Yitong ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Consumption; Field experiment; Recycling; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871017285     PISSN: 10577408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcps.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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