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Environmental and social psychologist Dr. Robert Gifford (psychology) studies the mental obstacles people have to adopting more environmentally friendly lifestyles. He is founding director of a new interdisciplinary program at UVic that focuses on the human dimensions of climate change. more... |
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You may think it’s the end of the line when you put a beverage container into your recycling bin, but as Jutta Gutberlet knows, it’s really just the beginning.
The University of Victoria geographer is finding ways to help make life better for informal recyclers or “binners”—people who make their living collecting the beverage containers we put in our recycling bins and dumpsters.
Binners, many of whom are homeless or socially isolated, may not have anywhere to leave their personal belongings while they’re collecting. Transporting both personal belongings and collected containers is a big problem.
Gutberlet’s Community-Based Research Laboratory at UVic has teamed up with Tony Hoar, an engineer and founder of Tony’s Trailers, to create a unique “shelter-in-a-cart” that solves that problem—and more.
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