The participation of network partners, stores and people in the project “Everyday Say No to Plastic Bags”

Abstract

          This research aims to 1) study the participation and its, affecting factor of network partners, stores and the people and 2) propose guidelines for promoting the participation of network partners in stores and people to be more effective and efficient. The researcher analyzed the data quantitatively. The collection of questionnaires from 18 project network partners and 412 from stores that did not participate in the project, including the collection of 400 general public questionnaires using the accidental sampling method. Descriptive statistics including frequency distribution and median.

          The results found that network partners stores and people still use single-use plastic bags, but they have perceived about the project. Both positive and negative impacts affect the decision of single-use plastic bags. The factors affecting participation having environmentally friendly alternative materials instead of single-use plastic bags, include such as and entrepreneurs and employees having knowledge, understanding, and awareness. These result in a reduction of the use of single-use plastic bags, solving plastic waste problem launching campaigns to reduce the use of plastic bags, such as campaigns through social media, news about environmental issues, etc., By means of promoting the participation of network partners, stores and people are as follows: 1) Measures for accepting cloth bag donations should be promoted in various locations of network partners to campaign for the most cost-effective and beneficial use of resources and plastic bags are recycled, reused, and upcycle. 2) Campaign activities in accordance should be carried out the policy to reduce the use single-use plastic bags with through various online channels. And 3) Providing knowledge, understanding, and awareness to reduce the use of single-use plastic bags until a change of behavior should be done.