2.5.6 General Attitude towards RecyclingRecycling is extremely important for the environment; in the UK recycling is estimated to save more than 18 million tonnes of C02 per year, and the 1,500 landfill sites located in the UK produced a quarter of the UK's methane emissions in 2001 (Recycle now, 2014 ). Recycling is therefore an important aspect for sustainable disposal, thanks to door-to-door collection, recycling has become convenient for the consumer; all recyclable items can be classified as waste and recycled accordingly. Shim (1995) and Joung (2013) studied the links between a general recycling attitude and consumers' environmental concerns and product disposal behaviors. Joung (2013) studied two groups, classified as materialistic and non-materialistic consumers, and found no difference in recycling participation between the two groups even though materialistic consumers had higher scores for disposal and lower scores for attitudes environmental compared to non-materialistic consumers (Joung 2013). It might be suggested that a consumer's general recycling behavior is a poor indicator of his or her environmental and other disposal behaviors; Shim (1995) suggests that consumers can “develop the habit of recycling without much sensitivity to environmentalism” (Shim 1995). Here general recycling behaviors are a result of the convenience of recycling for the consumer rather than a representation of their environmental concerns. Hoskins (2013) describes the effect of recycling without environmental concerns; “Ultimately, recycling addresses the symptom, not the cause, and gives consumers a false sense of security that the pace at which they consume and dispose of clothes is sustainable.” (I have...half of the document...d concern about the environment." (Koch and Domina 1999). They state that people associated with concern about the environment are "white, young, well-educated, and politically liberal." (Koch and Domina 1999), which may suggest that studies focused on young consumers in college will not provide results that reflect the concerns and attitudes of the nation Joung and Park-Poaps (2013) focused their research on college students in America; their study of 232 people was predominantly based on young, Caucasian (87.5%), female (91.8%) (Joung and Park-Poaps 2013 could in turn mean that they have learned consumer behaviors). similar as studies have shown that young children learn their attitudes and behaviors from their peers and family members (Ward 1974).