How design can determine recycling habits

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Dr Stewart Barr makes the case for recycling collection to be designed into buildings so it becomes part of a daily routine

What does your daily routine look like? Apart from overcrowded, I'd guess, it is probably highly complex and reliant on you juggling different tasks in a limited amount of time. The competing demands of...

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