INTERVIEWS
QUESTIONS FOR CLUB MEMBERS
I. How many employees are there in your company?
2. When was your company established? 3. What is the address of the company?
4. When did your company join the waste minimisation club?
5. What position do you, as the champion, hold in the company?
6. Ho\v do you see your position (or that of your company) within the club?
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7. What are your views on clubs as mechanisms for bringing about improved waste minimisation practices in industry?
8. Would the club have been formed without the stimulus and input from the outside?
9. I-Iow will the club work once the input from the outside is withdrawn?
10. Can you briefly explain how you see the club functioning?
11. What did you know about wash:: minimisation before joining the club?
12. In what ways has your knowledge about waste minimisation changed or grown since becoming a member of the club?
13. In what ways has your knowledge about the environment changed or grown Slllce becoming a member orlhe club?
14. In what ways has your knowledge abollt capacity building changed or grown slI1ce becoming a member of the club?
15. Why has your knowledge (.hanged or grown? Please give some examples.
16. What, if anything, has changed in your company practice due to membership of the club?
17. What, if anything, has changed in your company policy due to membcrship of the club?
18. In your opinion, how well is the club fUllctioning?
19. What motivators might enable the club to function ill the future?
20. What constraints might prevent the club from functioning in the future?
21. What changes would you make to improve the stmcture and functioning of the club?
22. What relationships have developed between your company and other club members?
23. What is the basis of this relationship?
24. In your opinion, what relationships have been formed between industry and the authorities?
25. In what way do you see what you're doing as public participation? Do you think you could influence the decision making process orthe OM A?
26. The club is currently a voluntary initiative, is there any way that it could be institutionalised? Is this a positive thing?
27. Do you see the Hammarsdale Waste Minimisation Club fitting into a broader movement of sustainable development and environmentalism? [n what ways?
28. In what way has the link between the club and the HJC fostered increased environmental concern?
29. Do you think this link is the direction the clubs should be working towards?
30. Do you think it is beller for the club if industries to be based in the same place rather than being sector based?
31. Are there any other issues you would like to discuss or comment on?
QUESTIONS FOR PROFESSIONALS
1. How was the project/your involvement in the club instigated?
2. Why was the club set up?
3. How was the Hammarsdale Waste Minimisation Club established?
4. Why was it established in this way? Please give details.
5. What was your role in setting up the club? Please give details.
6. What difficulties were encountered in establishing the club?
7. Who provides funding for this project?
8. What are the demands of the ftlnders? Do they involve themselves in how funding is used?
9. How do you see your position within the club?
10. Do YOll consider yourself a member?
I I. Is there a hierarchy amongst club members? Please explain your answer. 12. Why is this grouping of industries called a 'club'?
13. Can you briefly explain how the club functions?
14. Do you consider consensus building, conflict resolution and information a role of the club?
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In what ways has your knowledge about waste minimisation changed or grown since becoming involved with the club?16. III what ways has your knowledge ahout the environment changed or grown slIlce becoming involved with the club?
17. In what ways has your knowledge about capacity building changed or grown smce becoming involved with the club?
18. Why has your knowledge changed or grown?
19. What have you learnt about waste minimisation frollllhe members orthe club?
20. In what ways have you learnt about the setting up and management of clubs?
21. To what degree is capacity building taking place within the club?
22. In your opinion, how is the club functioning?
23. What motivators might enable the club to function in the future?
24. What constraints might prevent the club from functioning in the future?
25. How will the club function without outside facilitation?
26. Do you see the Hammarsdale Waste Minimisation Club filling into a broader movement of sustainable development and environmentalism? In what ways?
27. Do you think that the clubs contribute to sustainable development at this stage? In what ways?
28. How the club will continuc into the future with regard to contributing to sustainable development?
29. What relationships have been formed with institutions?
30. In your opinion, what relationships have been formed between industry and the authorities?
31. Is the local authority fully participating in the club? Why/why not?
32. In what way do you see what you're doing as public participation? Do you think you could influence the decision malcing process of the DMA?
33. Can the club improve waste minimisation control in the OM A?
34. In what way has the link between the club and the HIC fostered increased environmental concern?
35. Do you think this link is the direction the clubs should be working towards?
36. How do you see the role of the scientific experts in the club?
37. How do you see the role of the social scientists in the club?
38. How do you see the role of the educators in the club?
154 39. How will the waste minimisation club project benefit YOll as a professional?
40. Witb hindsight, is there anything you would have done differently in this project? 41. Are there any other issues you would like 10 discuss or comment on?
QUESTIONS FOR EDUCATORS
1. How was your involvement in the club instigated?
2. How do you see your position within the club?
3. Explain briefly how formal environmental education has occurred in the club.
4. Do you think that environmental education has occurred informally, in other ways in the club?
5. In what ways has your knowledge about waste minimisation changed or grown since working with the club?
6. In what ways has your knowledge about the envirollment changed or grown S1I1ce
working with the club?
7. In what ways has your knowledge about capacity building changed or grown Slllce working with the club?
8. Why has your knowledge changed or grown?
9. How do you see the club members interpreting the term "environment" ? 10. How do club members react to environmental matters in general?
1 1. What contribution to the success of the club has the environmental education made?
12. Has there been enough environmental education for the club to become an instrument of sustainable development?
13. Do you think that environmental education will contribute to the sustainability of the club itself?
14, In what ways do you think that environmental education through the club is important in our current context?
15. Do YOLl think the emergence of clubs here and elsewhere links to broader environmental movements in the present context of global environmental concern?
16. Do you see the Hamlllarsdale Waste Minimisation Club fitting into a broader movement ofsllstainable development and environmentalism? In what ways?
17. In your opinion, how is the club functioning?
18, What l11otivalors might enable the club to function in the future?
19. What constraints might prevent the club from functioning in the future?
20. \Vith hindsight, is there anything you would have done differently in Ihis project?
21. Are there any other issues you would like to discllss or comment on?