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Three waste management behaviors (waste reduction, reuse, and recycling) were examined with the use of a conceptual framework developed by the author. It was posited that environmental values, situational characteristics, and psychological factors all play a significant role in the prediction of waste management behavior, within the context of a core intention-behavior rela-tionship. The framework was tested in a self-report questionnaire of 673 resi-dents of Exeter, UK. It was found that the predictors of reduction, reuse, and recycling behavior differed significantly, with reduction and reuse being pre-dicted by underlying environmental values, knowledge, and concern-based variables. Recycling behavior was, in contrast, characterized as highly nor-mative behavior. The use of the approach taken for investigating other envi-ronmental behaviors is examined