Tourist Behavior of Plastic Waste Reduction in the Coastal Area of Trang Province, Thailand

Ounsaneha, Weerawat; Laosee, Orapin; Suksaroj, Thunwadee Tachapattaworakul; Srisamai, Pintip; Rattanapan, Cheerawit

doi:10.18178/ijesd.2020.11.4.1245

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“…It indicates that for every increase in behaviour score, the presence of plastic waste management will increase by 2.035 times compared to households who do not have behaviour. This result aligned with previous study done by [23].…”

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confidence: 94%

“…There is a study showed that 80.2% of people who had a good knowledge would lead to a good behaviour while people who had a bad behaviour usually would have a poor knowledge on plastic waste, 58.4%. This shows that knowledge is very important in order for people to have good behaviour [23]. Many environmentalists believe that consumer ignorance was a main reason why some people do not recycle.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Plastic waste knowledge of households towards a sustainable environment

Nasir

Malek²,

Januri³

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Plastic waste in Malaysia has become a serious problem since it affects not only the environment but wildlife animals and marine life too. These may cause by irresponsible people in dealing with their plastic waste management. Therefore, this study is conducted mainly to analyse the knowledge, attitude, awareness, and behaviours of households in Pasir Gudang towards plastic waste management in separating plastic waste before its disposal. A questionnaire was distributed among households who live in this area. The Binary Logistic Regression is used to analyse the knowledge, attitude, awareness, and behaviour of households towards plastic waste management. The results show that only the behaviours of households affect the plastic waste management in their households (p-value=0.04). The Hosmer-Lemeshow test indicates the model has a good fit for the data (p-value=0.480). Other than that, the Omnibus test (p-value=0.03) shows predictors have significant effects and gave improvement to the model. The Classification Table shows the accuracy of 67.4% of the households who separated plastic waste before its disposal. It is suggested to improve the result by adding more respondents to provide insight information on the independent variables, analyse further using other approach such as decision tree and parallelly acknowledge others on the importance of recycling plastic waste.

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confidence: 94%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plastic waste knowledge of households towards a sustainable environment

Nasir

Malek²,

Januri³

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…In the first instance, opportunities to reduce unnecessary use could be seized where this is feasible especially at shops like restaurants. In this case, policies should be incorporated to avoid disposable plastic items at restaurants and need to pay penalty in an offence [ 28 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigating the Role of Tourists and Impact of Knowledge, Behaviour, and Attitude Towards Plastic Waste Generation

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Tourism is one of the lifelines in nations for their strong economy. Through the expansion of tourism industry, enormous amounts of plastic materials are disposed that have detrimental effects on environment, animal and human health. The present study demonstrates the role of tourists on generation of plastic waste and further statistical approach was used to investigate the impact of knowledge, behaviour, and attitude of tourists towards generation of plastic waste. Result shows that the tourists play key role in generating plastic waste at outdoor places which is a serious issue that could block drainage ways in city which leads to many waters born disease. The study highlights that the awareness can make certain changes in plastic waste generation and can bridge the knowledge–practice gap. Moreover, the circular economy can offer opportunity to exploit plastic waste into various decorative and useful products that can generate income to local community and help to reduce plastic wastes. It is also important to highlight that the government needs to take care of surveillance in the market on using plastic bags either by sellers or consumers.

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“…[39]. The amount of PW generated from the tourism sector depends on many factors, such as destination characteristics, accommodation type, travel mode, tourist behavior and attitudes, infrastructure, waste management systems, policy, and regulations [27,38,[40][41][42][43].…”

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confidence: 99%

Reduction of Plastic Waste in Tourism Activities in Sam Son City, Viet Nam

Vinh,

Thang,

Van

et al. 2023

IJESD

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Pollution caused by plastic waste (PW) is becoming urgent, causing negative impacts on tourism development in Viet Nam. This study aims to determine the amount of PW generated in Sam Son, especially from tourism activities. It proposes solutions to reduce PW in the tourism sector in the coastal city of Sam Son, Thanh Hoa province, Viet Nam. A survey of tourists, households, and accommodation establishments carried out the assessment of PW generation. The pilot activity was conducted by providing alternative products to selected hotels to replace single-use plastics. The results show that PW generation from tourism accounts for 42.42% of domestic solid waste. The estimated average rate of PW generation per visitor is about 0.4kg/person/day. The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have reduced the PW generated in this sector by about 40%. Although it may result in a 1.4-fold increase in expenses, tourism accommodation establishments and visitors have responded positively to activities replacing single-use plastic products. To reduce PW from tourism in Sam Son, several solutions are proposed, including implementing the extended producer responsibility (EPR) mechanism effectively; implementing a roadmap to eliminate single-use plastic products; building technical infrastructure for classification, collection, and treatment; developing a plan to reduce PW in Thanh Hoa province; promoting and raising awareness and understanding about PW.

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Tourist Behavior of Plastic Waste Reduction in the Coastal Area of Trang Province, Thailand

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Plastic waste knowledge of households towards a sustainable environment

Plastic waste knowledge of households towards a sustainable environment

Investigating the Role of Tourists and Impact of Knowledge, Behaviour, and Attitude Towards Plastic Waste Generation

Reduction of Plastic Waste in Tourism Activities in Sam Son City, Viet Nam

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