Appendices 2- Transcript of Focus Group aged 18-28
Interviewer: Hayley
Farmer P1: Aged 23 Female
P2: Aged 21 Female
P3: Aged 22 Fe
male
P4: Aged 24 Female
P5: Aged 28 Female
Interviewer: Do you as an individual or as a family unit recycle on a daily basis? Why is this important to
yourself and the environment? //
P1: I do at home, at the family home we do (.) but (..) eugh at my accommodation we don’t cause I haven’t
seen the facility to recycle there (.) but I would and like it bugs me that we don’t recycle //
Interviewer: Yeah//
P2: I live with my boyfriend and we don’t just because we don’t have the facilities near us (.) umm and
actually when we first moved out we were (..) we were quite annoyed by it (.)we’ve got glass bottling recycling points (.) like round the corner but because its round the corner we were like “mmm” (.) and there’s
like no like (.) box we can put it in at home we don’t bother because it’s just easier to put it in the bin (.)
but it did it did annoy us that there wasn’t this facility //
P3: Yeah that’s like when I was in my first year in Jennens court there was no facilities so we literally
just shoved it all in it and we weren’t very (.) you know cautious about it but when I’m at home we wash
EVERYTHING like my mom (.) she won’t just put the milk carton in the bin with the lid on she washes it
all out lets it dry then (.) she takes it very seriously (laughs) //
[All laugh]
P4: Yeah we eugh recycle at home and I feel like if I don’t then I do feel guilty about it say like (.) if I’m out
and I chuck a eugh plastic bottle in the bin I feel guilty about it kind of makes me want to take it home
with me (.) just so I can put it in recycling and then I know then that I’ve made a contribution//
P5: We’ve got four different bins in our house (laughs) Umm one for plastic one for just general rubbish (.)
one for food and then one for like (..) if it’s like household waste kind of thing like wood or anything (.) so
(..) I do what I can but I find that I have to ask which one does this go in or whatever cause I’m not too sure
if it can be recycled // or not cause some things can’t //
All participants: // Yeah //
P2: I do that when I go back home to my parents because they have a lot of facilities to use //
Interviewer: umm okay well leading on to that question, from that question (.) umm (.) do you think at
your age, your age group your well educated in recycling or do you think it could have been embedded in
you a little bit more when you were (.) slightly younger? //
P5: Probably more // (.) I only do it cause it’s my Nan my nans like “you’ve got to put this in this bin and
that bin” so I don’t know if it’s a generations
Interviewer: // Yeah //
P1: I think its umm something that we should be educated on (.) cause you just kind of pick it up from the
news and what’s going on in the world // that your never really taught (.) what to recycle and how to recycle it it’s just what you’ve learnt from your parents
P4 & P5: // Yeah //
P2: If we’d had stuff like that at school (.) umm (.) then I’d (.) definitely like if we had like recycling bins at
school then I would have done it a lot more but I only did I only do it now because of my parents were like
‘no this is why you do it’ //
P5: // Yeah //
P3: I think it’s only become like a really big thing recently as well because umm (..) you know like re..
resources running out and all of that but like when I was younger I don’t remember being worried about it
the only time I remember seeing it was like when they do children in need and they show the kids in Africa
and there (.) where there drinking from is full of our waste (.) that that was the only time I ever thought
about it //
P4: I kind of feel like we were told about it but never really explained the significance of it though like we
kind of given general terms of some like ‘global warming’ and everything (.) but we’re never told “this is
what you should do this is how you can do it this is how it can help” like (.) I think that needs to be told
when you’re in education //
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