Abstract: Household waste recycling requires the participation of all individuals which include student’s population who are transient in nature but contribute largely to waste generation. A case study of Coventry University Postgraduate (CUPG) students, with the objective to identify the barriers facing these group of students. To give every student an equal opportunity of selection, simple random sampling was used for data collection. To get at least 100 responses, a number of 150 CUPG students were sampled, using questionnaires as a tool for data