In Australia, recycling is essential to address UN SDG Goal 12: Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. Exchange for Change coordinates between NSW and ACT's Return and Earn container deposit scheme, making recycling easy for consumers, beverage suppliers, and the waste industry.

A random sample of households' data on per-person tonnes of recycling from ACT and NSW is stored in an Excel fileReturnAndEarn.xlsx. Download the Excel file and use Excel to undertake an appropriate hypothesis test to address the research question:

Figure 1: NSW Figure 2: ACT 10 12 10 12 Frequency Frequency O 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 10000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 10000 per-person tonnes per-person tonnes Figure 3: NSW- ACT Figure 4: Recycling 1 1000 9000 Frequency per-person tonnes 7000 LO 5000 O -6000 -5500 -5000 -4500 -4000 -3500 NSW ACT Differences in per person tonnesA1 X V fx N A B C NSW ACT N 4921.9 10606.65 W 5118.2 10410.37 4 5293.72 9056.42 UT 5049.14 10078.99 6 4950.55 10010.64 5332.04 10101.57 4727.46 9827.33 5291.07 9207.86 10 5063.39 9794.81 11 4891.1 9963.64 12 4794.51 10001.87 13 5110.63 9288.07 14 5053.33 9290.69 15 4967.96 9798.62 16 5030.29 9779.48 17 5096 9718.07 18 4794.89 10357.9 19 4686.96 9434.13 20 5010.99 10656.02 21 4735.32 8959.96 22 4698.33 9593.25 23 5217.14 9302.05 24 5101.81 10072.5 25 5137.14 9635.73 26 4898.35 10327.87 27 4728.33 9578.46 28 4765.88 9315.14 29 5293.92 9771.85 30 5044.54 10011.96 31 4983.91 10059.97 32 4917.29 9476.2 33 5004.02 9576.04 34 5170.36 9956.68 35 4779.66 10282.93 36 4738.44 9823.39 37 4972.66 10861.17 38 4965.6 9720.74 39 4625.57 9752.89 40 4849.92 9967.88 41 42 43