Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Continuous Household Survey, 2004-2005

Variable Details

Variableopaper
LabelReasons for not recycling other (specify)
Question text Please specify the other reasons.
Responses
Because its not law 1
Busy lifestyle 1
DONT KNOW HOW 1
DONT KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT 1
DONTHAVE SEPARATE BINS 1
Driving to amenity sire envolves time and car fuel 1
Flat tower block with no facitities for ecycling/has rubbish shoot only 1
HEALTH 1
If it was made easier 1
LACK OF BELIEF IN SYSTEM 1
Lack of transport 1
Laziness 1
NEVER THOUGHT OF IT 1
NO CAR 2
No arrangement recyclng in ths home 1
No recycling option in sheltered accomadation 1
Not sure were recycling site is 1
Paper bin has been stolen 1
Shack apartment-no recycling facilities/communical waste disposal 1
TOO HEAVY 1
The effort need/awkward 1
WE COLLED A BIN FUL OF PAPER & THEY REFUSED TO LIFT IT 1
Waste of time paper not recycled after being handed in. 1
aziness 1
because of govt lack of responsibility in this issue 1
black eecyclung box is not big enough to hold everything 1
blue bin collection 1
blue bins available 1
blurbin for paper recently supplied 1
cannot get out to go own her own 1
cant be bother/difficult to take to amenity centres 1
cant walk 1
confined to wheelchair husband too infirm 1
did regularly bat then council said to put it in with everyday rubbish 1
didn't know about can recycling 1
didnt realise cans could be recycled 1
do not know where facilities 1
dogs get scraps 1
don't know where to go, bad health 1
dont care 1
dont know how 1
dont know where collection point is 1
dont know where recycling facilities are 1
egerence 1
eyesight gone 1
feed kitchen waste to dogs or birds 1
forget 1
get stuck in habit q not doingit 1
gives papers to friend for lighting fires 1
got a paper bin but not sure when collected 1
have blue bin 1
have nowhere to use compost 1
have to get too many boxea etc 1
have to wash cans which wastes water and cancels benefit 1
health not good 1
health problems 1
health reasons 1
i have little faith in how waste is actually disposed of 1
i mean well-i collect bottles to recycle then dump them 1
if i had a bigger garden 1
in the blue bin that the council provided 1
inconvenient 1
inconvience 1
its more of a hassle to recycle 1
just put them in the bin 1
kerbside facility not big enough 1
lack of knowledge 1
lady's health 1
laziness 2
laziness, unorganisation 1
live on 10th floor 1
my poor health restricts me 1
my wife deals with all that im busy working 1
needs to bemade easier 1
never thought about it 1
no arrangements within flats/aartment 1
no aware of any recyclimg facilities 1
no bin for cans 1
no car 2
no car to get to recycling facilities which are too far away to walk to, no recycling bin provided by council 1
no facilitys for glass recyling 1
no information about services 1
no one else does in the flats 1
no point in the area they live 1
no qualified drivers in house to go to recycling depot 1
no transport 4
no way of taking stuff to amenity site 1
not in habit of doing it 1
not open regurlarly enough 1
not well enough to go to collection point 1
nowhere for compost 1
only here from latvia, not sure how things work 1
people don't do it in this area 1
recycling facilities very poor 1
res has noway of gettng toskip as he has had a stroke 1
residents share bin faclitiesit would be impractible for elderly folk to seperate rubbish even if various recycling bins were provided 1
respondent saves cans for romania. 1
sceptical that the items are recycing/busy with young family 1
staff at local depot are unfriendly/puts householder off using faciites 1
takes up too much space in flat 1
there is a blue bid collection fortnightly 1
to busy recycle centre 1
too ill housebound 1
too lazy 5
too much bother 1
too much trouble 1
too old 2
unable to garden due to ill health so no longer make compost 1
use bottles for other purposes 1
use very few cans 1
uses papers to light fire 1
very little to recycle 1
visited local dump and has been closed 8 times during past year when should be open 1
we were told that collecting papers in the hall was a fire hazard 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationContinuous Household Survey, 2004-2005
UniversePrivate households in Northern Ireland.;Households;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;The sample is drawn as a simple random sample from three strata. The first of these strata is the Belfast District Council area. The other two are formed by dividing the remainder of the province into East and West along district council boundaries. Within each of these strata a simple random sample of addresses is drawn, with size proportional to the distribution of domestic addresses on the rating list.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. Data are collected annually.