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Community participation - recycling
Market research has shown that although there is a strong community awareness of the importance of recycling, this is not translated into action. A consumer survey carried out for the Aylesford paper recycling mill, for example, showed a number of interesting trends [46]. Although 96% of people said that it was important to recycle domestic waste, only 13% of people said they recycled 80%+ of their household recyclables. In Germany 2% of people do no recycling at all while in Great Britain this figure is 38%. An additional third said they recycle little; 8/10 wanted it to be made compulsory for local authorities to provide a recycling centre, 9/10 said they would support legislation requiring local authorities to provide special bins to help households recycle and 58% of people said they were more likely to buy a newspaper title if it was printed on recycled paper.
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