This document summarizes the results of a survey on recycling conducted by Charley Jackson. Key findings include: - 41 females and 8 males completed the survey, but gender did not correlate directly with recycling habits. - Respondents from all listed age ranges participated, despite an expectation that most would be 18-24. - Around 6% more respondents said they recycle "most of the time" rather than "always." - Over 90% of respondents agreed that recycling should be compulsory.

1. Recycling Survey Analysis
Charley Jackson

2. Although my survey is about recycling, I felt that it was
relevant to ask what gender the person is too see which
gender recycles more than one another. I decided to leave the
option open for people to not have to answer this question by
adding a 'Prefer not to say' section incase people didn’t feel
comfortable answering.
From this question I have learnt that 41 females completed
my survey whereas, only 8 males did. This question has turned
out to be less relevant to my research than I originally
thought, the reason why I think this is because even though I
am able to see how many male and females responded; it
doesn’t necessarily tell me how many of each actually recycle
due to the main questions being asked after the first 2 (on the
survey).
If I was to redo this question I would use a 'checkbox'
template (which can be found while building a survey, on
survey monkey). Instead of just asking what gender the
audience are I would make it a double question, for example:
'Are you Male or Female and do you recycle?'. This is where
the checkbox template would be useful because it allows
more than one answer to be given, I would keep the same
options I chose for this one but add 'Yes' and 'No', for
example: Male and Yes, Male and No, Female and Yes, Female
and No
Q1

3. I chose to add this question in to my survey to see if how
many different age ranges I could get to complete my survey
regardless of if they recycle or not because even though I
won't know which specific person has answered the rest of
the survey questions I thought it would be a good idea to get
as many responses as I could from as many age ranges as I
could, due to their undoubtedly being a difference in opinions.
When building this survey question I thought that it wouldn’t
go to plan because I had the intention of sharing my survey on
my social media accounts (Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter
etc.) which made me think that I would only get responses
from my friends which mainly ranges from 18-24. Although I
did get the most responses from that age range, I got some
responses for every age range that I listed in the question due
to my survey being shared by people which drew the attention
of many different audiences.
This question itself doesn’t really help my research but it does
help to bare it in mind while analyzing the rest of my
questions.
Q2

4. Q3
This is one of the most relevant questions throughout the
entire survey because it is based around the overall purpose
of creating the survey, Recycling. I think that the results
from this question very interesting because I discovered
that only a small percentage of the people who participated
in this survey never recycle, 24.49 percent say they
occasionally recycle, around 38.78 percent say that they
recycle and that around 32.65 percent say that they always
recycle.
The most interestingnes part about this question in
particular is that 6.13 percent more people said that they
recycle most of the time compared to those that said they
recycle always. This is helpful because I can compare these
statistics against my collected secondary research. This
helps towards my research because it shows that even
though there is an improvement with recycling within the
United Kingdom, there is still a higher percentage that
recycle most of the time rather as apposed to always.

5. Comments
from
question 3

6. Q4
I felt that this would be another really important question
to add in to the survey, I thought that I could compare the
results from the previous question with results from this
question because I felt the questions (how often do you
recycle? and do you think you know enough about
recycling?) go hand in hand that some might not recycle due
to not knowing enough.
The results from this question show that more than 55% of
people know enough about recycling which shows that
recycling knowledge isn’t the issue and that there are other
potential barriers which could be preventing people from
recycling as much as they’d like to. Although the majority of
people said yes there is still 40 percent of participants that
chose ‘Not Really’. This is also a large statistic which shows
that there could be a bit more information about recycling
needed by some that could potentially make them want to
recycle. After doing some research I discovered that there
are quite a lot of people that don’t recycle because they feel
they don’t know enough in as much as they don’t know
what to recycle, how to prepare the materials or maybe
even where to recycle.

7. Q5
I feel that this question follows the previous one (Do you think
you know enough about recycling?) because for those that
think they do or don’t; this question is a way of testing to see
if the participants know what kind of materials they could
recycle.
I think the results of this question are really good because they
show that nearly everyone knows what the correct materials
to recycle are. This question shows that the participants that
don’t feel as though they know enough, subconsciously know
more than they thought.
This shows that knowing what to recycle isn’t a boundary to
the participants and that I could do some further research into
the other potential barriers that people may face and some
reasons that people have on why they may or may not recycle.
I could also do some research to get a clear list of majority of
the materials that could be recycle. I could possibly also look in
to the material that is recycled the most and least.

8. Comments
from
question 5

9. Q6
This question and it’s results are informative and useful
towards my research. This is because it gave me the ability
to learn what kind of barriers could be stopping people from
recycling. It also allowed to see if participants has similar
barriers. This question was a success over all because I got a
mixture of different results meaning that I had more of an
understanding on what barriers people may have.
The top 3 results are ‘there are no barriers, I recycle when
possible’, ‘unsure on what to recycle’ and ‘no facilities’. I
think that I could have reworded one of the responses better
which is the ‘there are no barriers..’ response. My reason for
this is that I think that it generalises a little too much
because it could apply to those who do and don’t recycle
and that isn’t the initial intention.

10. Comments
from 'Other'
on question
6

11. Q7
This is another question which I thought that I should add in because
it was an opportunity for people to anonymously and honestly
answer about if they really know what the benefits of recycling are.
This question meant that I can see how much the participants know
about recycling. This shows that the majority of the participants do
know what’s the benefits of recycling are, while only a smaller
percentage said ‘not really’ or ‘no’.
I think that this is a good statistic because it shows that there is a
good level of understanding of recycling among the participants.
This also makes my research a bit more interesting because to a
degree, it partially rules out the question of weather people recycle
because they don’t understand what the benefits of it are.
Another aspect which makes these statistics good is that it shows
that there could be other underlying reasons why some chose not to
recycle, also meaning that we can (in this case/with the participants)
rule out a lack of understanding and begin to work out the other
potential reasons in order to see if this is something which can be
changed.

12. Q8
Recycling and discarding rubbish correctly at home is just as
important as recycling and discarding rubbish correctly
outdoors and I wanted to gain some opinions on weather
people really use the facilities which are provided in order for
people to recycle outside. The results show that 85% of the
survey participants would or do use the outdoor facilities,
which I think is really positive overall.
I think that I could have worded this question a little bit
differently or maybe even added in an extra question to gain
another opinion on weather the participants think that they
have enough public recycling facilities available to them in
order for them to do so. I think this would improve my
question because my issue with my unaltered question is that
I am unsure of how many people are agreeing that they do
use the facilities (basically meaning that there is enough) or
those that would use the facilities (meaning that they would
if they know were they can be found close to their area.
Regardless, I think that the response from this question is
good because it shows that throughout my survey there isn’t
a large amount of people that don’t recycle because they
don’t want to, don’t know enough or don’t think there are
enough facilities.

13. Comments
from 'Other'
on question
8

14. Q9
I think that this is an interesting question because here we can
see that more than 90% of the survey participants agree that
recycling should be compulsory, but what makes this interesting
is that the majority of people that said they recycle 'Most of the
time' answered 'Yes' to this question. Although, I do think that I
should have either turned this question in to just a comment
box response question or I should have added more choices
than 'Yes and No' to this question because this would have given
me much more reliable and accurate responses to work with.
I do think that the response I got from this question in particular
is positive because only four people don’t think that recycling
should be compulsory. This means that more and more people
are taking recycling seriously and understanding the reasons
why it's becoming more important to recycle things as much as
possible. After doing some research, it is clear that this is a really
good statistic compared to similar ones from years ago; it's clear
that there is a positive development.
Due to this question being fairly debatable, I was initially
expecting there to be a mixture of opinions. I didn’t expect
there to be 91.67% (for yes) with 8.33% (for no).

15. Comments
from
question 9

16. Q10
This number of responses for this question surprised me, my
reason for this being that, with the participants having the
option to skip; I really thought that they would. The number of
people that skipped is 16, quite honestly I was expecting
probably less than 16 for the number of people that answered
so I think this is definitely a positive. The number of people that
answered is 33, this is really good! It's nice to see that the
majority of the participants took some time to think about the
aspects of recycling.
Although there are quite a lot of people that responded, I
noticed that about 90 percent of the responses are relatively
the same. For example, there are a lot of responses that say
'No', ' Nope' or 'not really' but there are at least 8 responses
that have been thought out and can be worked with far more
than the others.
I have added every response to the next slide, the longer
responses are great because it's clear that these people have
had a good think and have been honest about what aspect of
recycling they'd like to know more about.

17. Comments
from
question 10