The notion of a compensation is widely used in advanced transaction models as means of recovery from a failure. Similar concepts are adopted for providing “transaction-like” behavior for long business processes supported by workflows technology. Generally, designing a compensating task in the context of a workflow process is a non-trivial job. In fact, not every task is compensatable. This work...

This paper describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a pilot recycling campaign. The goal of the campaign was to increase people's awareness and knowledge about recycling and the link between a healthy environment and the public's health. A total of 258 individuals attended campaign week events and completed an initial survey. Results identified inconvenience of recycling fac...

We examined attitudes and behavior surrounding voluntary recycling in a population of low-income Hispanic women. Participants (N = 1,512) 18-55 years of age completed a self-report survey and responded to questions regarding household recycling behavior, recycling knowledge, recycling beliefs, potential barriers to recycling (transportation mode, time), acculturation, demographic characteristic...

Much previous research on recycling behavior has drawn heavily on models of personal and perceived social norms, as well as of personal attitudes, to explain recycling behavior. Although such models have received empirical support, the issue concerning discrepancies between norms, personal attitudes and an individual’s behavior is yet to be resolved. Using battery recycling in Switzerland as a ...

Drawing on ideas from the literatures on organizations and social movements, I study how a shift in logics created changes in the causal drivers of state-level recycling advocacy group creation in the U.S. Specifically, I show that the formation of early state recycling advocacy groups was enabled by state-level conditions that were favorable to ecological activism. These early organizations we...

The achievement of recycling programs depends essentially on the active and sustained involvement of people. In order to investigate factors that influence households’ decision to participate in recycling programs, this research applied directed interviews, observations, and questionnaire surveys to study recycling behavior of 381 randomly selected individuals in Bangkok. The study employed the...

paper recycling in an increasingly environmentally conscious world is gaining importance. withrapid developments in deinking processes for the reuse of secondary fibers being made, therecycling process is become more and more efficient. this work investigated the effect ofchemical different treatments including h2o2 and naoh on repulping and flotation operationsduring the deinking of laser prin...