THE STUDY OF RESPONSIBILITY AND UNDERSTANDING OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT BEHAVIOR ON REDUCING PLASTIC AND FOAM IN SUAN SUNANDHA RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY.

Naruedom  Chewpraditkul; Wattana  Panphut; Chookait  Pudprommarat

Naruedom Chewpraditkul Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Wattana Panphut Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Chookait Pudprommarat Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand

Keywords: public responsibility, understanding, behavior reducing, plastic, foam

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the effects of responsibility and understanding of undergraduate students on the behavior of plastic and foam usage reduction of students in Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University in the academic year 2019, with a sample of 100 students. The tools used in the research were the students' response survey on the behavior for usage plastic and foam. Data were collected between 16 to 20 September 2019 and analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as percentage, average and standard deviation.
The research found that undergraduate students receive news about reducing plastic and foam used from social media as the number one and receiving the last news about reducing plastic and foam boxes from newspaper media. The study of students' opinions about the responsibility of reducing plastic and foam. 98.4% of students agreed to reduce waste by using cloth bags and rice boxes instead of plastic bags and foam. As the students' opinions about understanding, 100% of students have the same direction that reducing the use of foam reduces the risk of food contamination.