According to a poll conducted by leading waste management firm SITA UK it has been found that educating people about how to recycle is the best way to boost recycling rates.

46 respondents took part in the poll, 56% thought education was the key to improving recycling rates, 31% said incentives was the best method and 11% thought fines was the best way to boost rates.

A spokesman for SITA UK, Anthony Durston said “The results of the poll make it clear that education was believed to be the key in recycling practices.”

The results of this survey were released just a week after the new UK coalition government completely dropped Labour’s plans to introduce fines in favour of an incentive based approach.