What drives an environmental horticultural firm to start recycling plastics? Results of a Georgia survey
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2015.04.011
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Plastic recycling; Environmental horticulture; Firm features; Recycling motivation; Survey; Data; Probit model;All these keywords.
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