This paper examines household recycling participation by state among panelists in a large nationally representative internet survey panel. We report the percent of panelists in each state who indicate household recycling of cans, plastic, paper, or glass in the previous twelve months. These data...

Single-stream recycling enables households to recycle an unsorted mix of cans, plastic, glass, and paper, thereby reducing recycling costs. The expansion of single-stream recycling in Wisconsin provides a natural experiment to assess the extent to which single-stream increases recycling...

This article analyzes changes in recycling behavior using a longitudinal national U.S. dataset with over 235,000 pairs of same-household observations to measure changes in recycling behavior. Changes in recycling are greater if others in the county increased their recycling rates. Policies that...