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Data from: Being in a “green” building elicits “greener” recycling, but not necessarily “better” recycling Wu, David W.-L.; DiGiacomo, Alessandra; Peter, Lenkic J.; Vanessa, Wong K.; Kingstone, Alan; Lenkic, Peter J.; Wong, Vanessa K.

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Previous observational work revealed that transient populations in a sustainable building disposed of waste more accurately when compared to patrons in a non-sustainable building. The current study uses an experimental design to replicate this observed effect and to investigate whether or not the built environment influences motivational factors to impact behavior. We find support that a building designed and built to communicate an atmosphere of sustainability can influence waste disposal behavior. Participants in the sustainable building used the garbage receptacle significantly less and compensated by tending to select the containers and organics receptacle more, which actually resulted in more errors overall. Our findings suggest that building atmospherics can motivate people to recycle more. However, atmospherics alone do not appear to be sufficient to elicit the desired performance outcome.
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Title	Data from: Being in a “green” building elicits “greener” recycling, but not necessarily “better” recycling
Creator	Wu, David W.-L.; DiGiacomo, Alessandra; Peter, Lenkic J.; Vanessa, Wong K.; Kingstone, Alan; Lenkic, Peter J.; Wong, Vanessa K.
Date Issued	2021-05-19
Description	Abstract Previous observational work revealed that transient populations in a sustainable building disposed of waste more accurately when compared to patrons in a non-sustainable building. The current study uses an experimental design to replicate this observed effect and to investigate whether or not the built environment influences motivational factors to impact behavior. We find support that a building designed and built to communicate an atmosphere of sustainability can influence waste disposal behavior. Participants in the sustainable building used the garbage receptacle significantly less and compensated by tending to select the containers and organics receptacle more, which actually resulted in more errors overall. Our findings suggest that building atmospherics can motivate people to recycle more. However, atmospherics alone do not appear to be sufficient to elicit the desired performance outcome.; Usage notes PLoS One Spreadsheet Data
Subject	Other; built environment; recycling; sustainability science
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Notes	Dryad version number: 1 Version status: submitted Dryad curation status: Published Sharing link: https://datadryad.org/stash/share/YJ7NKZZZKHZ-CKaj319E6uSpv1NgBK3s1GpRCGYvqEU</p> Storage size: 69045 Visibility: public
Date Available	2020-06-24
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0397864
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/PYTCQZ
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/PYTCQZ; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9n44q
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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