Investigating the knowledge and attitude of the Greek public towards marine plastic pollution and the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive

Charitou, Anastasia; Aga-Spyridopoulou, Roxani Naasan; Mylona, Zoi; Beck, Rahel; McLellan, Fabienne; Addamo, Anna Maria

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112182

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“…An online survey was conducted to understand the KAP among the residents of Malaysia aged 18 years and above towards plastic pollution. A structured questionnaire was developed for this study based on our prior experience and following Afroz et al (2017); Azoulay et al (2019); Charitou et al (2021); Chen et al (2021) and Soares et al (2021b). The draft questionnaire was reviewed by three researchers and pre-tested with 10 respondents.…”

Section: Data Collection Approachmentioning

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices towards Plastic Pollution among Malaysians

Chin¹,

Mahanta²,

Nath³

2022

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Excessive production, consumption and indiscriminate disposal of plastic waste cause an increasing plastic pollution with detrimental impacts on environment and human health. This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) towards plastic pollution among Malaysians and evaluate the variation of plastic pollution related KAP among various socio-demographics. An online survey was conducted, and 294 valid responses was obtained. Descriptive statistics, KAP scoring and cross tabulation of responses were estimated. One-way analysis of variance, paired t-test and binary logistic regressions were carried out. Results showed that respondents had poor knowledge (mean 7.41 ± 1.80) and practice score (3.81 ± 1.39) across all socio-demographics. Compared to younger (18-30 years) respondents, older ones (>46 years) had higher knowledge (odds ratio, OR 4.304; p<0.01). However, middle aged (31-45 years) respondents reported significantly (p<0.01) higher attitude (OR 4.019) and practice (OR 4.056; p <0.05). Respondents with environmental related university education had showed higher odds about plastic pollution related knowledge (OR 10.343; p<0.01). Suggestions are made to undertake interventions such as environmental awareness creation, incorporating plastic pollution topics in formal and informal education, and providing recycling facilities nearby the localities for encouraging good practices towards minimizing plastic uses and pollution.

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices towards Plastic Pollution among Malaysians

Chin¹,

Mahanta²,

Nath³

2022

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“…A study conducted in Greece investigated knowledge and attitude towards marine plastic pollution and the study revealed that participants were willing to pay and act as per requirements to reduce single use plastic bags and marine plastic pollution (Charitou et al, 2021). Ghana researchers examined attitudinal and behavioral responses to SUPs of their residents and found that some favor attitude towards SUPs and consume them equally, some are potential avoiders, some sometimes avoid and sometimes use SUPS and others are avoiders who avoid consumption of SUPs (Adam et al, 2021).…”

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“…The study concluded that participants were unaware about marine plastic pollution nor about the EU Single-Use Plastic Directives. Also, participants were willing to pay and act as per requirements to reduce single use plastic bags and marine plastic pollution (Charitou et al, 2021). Intrinsic motivation cause behavioral change such as consumer's own bag use increased after a charge for single use plastic bags introduction in supermarket (Jakovcevic et al, 2014).…”

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Single use plastic usage in the Maldives: Knowledge, practice and attitude

Naila

Raheem

Hassan

et al. 2022

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Solid waste management in the Maldives is under extreme stress due to the unique nature of its geography and economic structure. Plastic pollution has been a growing concern for the Maldives. The purpose of this research study was to identify the current consumption patterns of the plastic items particularly single use plastics (SUP) as well as identifying the level of knowledge among the consumers about the SUP and consumer behavior to change and the public confidence level in drinking tap water. A questionnaire was used as the key instrument for primary data collection in this study. It enabled researchers to collect data in a standardized way so that the data were internally consistent for analysis. A total 817 out of 1095 responded to the survey from across the Maldives. The overall finding suggested that the majority of the consumers in the Maldives are still using single-use plastic in their everyday life. However, large percentage of consumers know the benefits of reducing plastic on human health and environment. With regard to the challenges or barriers in implementing the single-use plastic, consumers identified lack of available alternatives, higher costs, inconvenient transport, lack of hygiene, and time requirement. In addition, majority of the participants do not trust the quality of tap water in the country for various reasons, therefore, they prefer to consume bottle water. It seems there is an immense and urgent need to explore ways to increase consumers awareness and subsequent efforts to reduce the consumption of plastic in the country.

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“…The average maximum temperature in Mytilene Island is around 30.4 Celsius in July, and the average minimum temperature reaches about 6.7 Celsius in January. It is worth highlighting that Greece has been a subject of extensive research for marine pollution detection, as there have been numerous reports on accumulated pollutions on its various beaches [43][44][45][46]. available Earth observation data that can be efficiently used for the detection of marine pollutants, specifically the large-size plastics [39][40][41][42].…”

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A Cloud-Based Framework for Large-Scale Monitoring of Ocean Plastics Using Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery and Generative Adversarial Network

Jamali

Mahdianpari

2021

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Marine debris is considered a threat to the inhabitants, as well as the marine environments. Accumulation of marine debris, besides climate change factors, including warming water, sea-level rise, and changes in oceans’ chemistry, are causing the potential collapse of the marine environment’s health. Due to the increase of marine debris, including plastics in coastlines, ocean and sea surfaces, and even in deep ocean layers, there is a need for developing new advanced technology for the detection of large-sized marine pollution (with sizes larger than 1 m) using state-of-the-art remote sensing and machine learning tools. Therefore, we developed a cloud-based framework for large-scale marine pollution detection with the integration of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and advanced machine learning tools on the Sentinel Hub cloud application programming interface (API). Moreover, we evaluated the performance of two shallow machine learning algorithms of random forest (RF) and support vector machine (SVM), as well as the deep learning method of the generative adversarial network-random forest (GAN-RF) for the detection of ocean plastics in the pilot site of Mytilene Island, Greece. Based on the obtained results, the shallow algorithms of RF and SVM achieved an overall accuracy of 88% and 84%, respectively, with available training data of plastic debris. The GAN-RF classifier improved the detection of ocean plastics of the RF method by 8%, achieving an overall accuracy of 96% by generating several synthetic ocean plastic samples.

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Investigating the knowledge and attitude of the Greek public towards marine plastic pollution and the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive

Cited by 48 publications

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices towards Plastic Pollution among Malaysians

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices towards Plastic Pollution among Malaysians

Single use plastic usage in the Maldives: Knowledge, practice and attitude

A Cloud-Based Framework for Large-Scale Monitoring of Ocean Plastics Using Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery and Generative Adversarial Network

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