Question

Over the last decade, recycling of household waste has become an extremely important behavior across the nations. However, in ancient countries this fluctuates from one country to the other. China is the leader amongst waste management while India, an equally large country, still has a long way to go. Though these are essentially policy driven or community driven initiatives, there are a number of attitudinal and motivational barriers to recycling, acting at an individual level. Punita Nagarajan, a business studies graduate with a keen interest in environmental issues, read about this in a special report in the news paper. She recognized a potential business opportunity. It seemed obvious to her that there was scope for a potentially lucrative business related to some aspect of household recycling/ All she had to do was work out some way of alleviating the inconvenience people associated with recycling. Punita decided that a door to door recycling service may be a profitable way to get people to recycle. She believed that households would be willing to pay a small fee to have their waste collected on a weekly basis, from outside their home. Punita discussed this idea with a few friends who were very receptive reinforcing Punita”s views that this was indeed a good business opportunity. However, before she developed a detailed business plan, she decided it was necessary to confirm her thoughts and suspicions regarding the consumers views about recycling. In particular, she decided to check that her ideas, about convenience and recycling, were on the right track. To do this, she decided to conduct some research into attitudes towards household’s recycling. Questions: What is the kind of research design you would advocate here? Give reason. Write down two objectives and hypotheses for the study and also mention the variables involved. Do you think a hypothesis is necessary for the study? Justify. Can you suggest any alternative design? Why/ Why not?

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January 2017, I wrote about her being “The U.S. Politician Who Could Become Second Abraham Lincoln”, because one of her similarities to Lincoln is that though she’s only a member of the U.S. House, lots of extremely well-informed progressives are already talking about her as being a serious contender for her Party’s Presidential nomination in 2020, and I explained there why.