ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR / January 1999breo et al. / RECYCLING ND CONSUMERISM REDUCING SOLID WASTE Linking Recycling to Environmentally Responsible Consumerism

cuses on conservation behavior, environmental attitudes and motives, and procedural justice. JAMES HERSHEY is currently a doctoral student in the Quantitative Psychology program in the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. His interests are in decision theory and applied statistics, especially categorical and multivariate analysis. JOANNE VINING is an associate professor of Environmental Psychology in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Il-linois, Urbana–Champaign. Her research interests are emotion and environmental decisions, conservation behavior, and public involvement. ABSTRACT: A survey of several communities was conducted to investigate the pub-lic’s response to solid waste issues. This study examines the relation between respon-dents ’ beliefs about environmentally responsible consumerism and environmental attitudes, motives, and self-reported recycling behavior. The study addressed (a) the public’s perception of environment-related product attributes; (b) a sociodemo