| dc.description.abstract | On the basis of statistical data from Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) in 2006, the transportation amount of the trash showed negative growth since1998, and the resource recovery continuously increases year by year. The average generated trash per person every day has been reduced from 1.135 kg in 1998 to 0.667 kg in 2005. The analysis results of physical constituents of the trash indicated that 95.2 % of wet-basis is flammable trash. Among the flammable trash, paper indicates the highest percentage (38.70%), the other key constituents include garbage (38.21%) and plastics (13.59%), indicating highly proportional trash is still useful. This represents the resource recovery needs to be promoted further.
The objective of this research is to examine the cognition, volition and participation of citizens relevant to the policy of the trash reduction and resource recovery, which is propagated by local government. By the variation in personal qualitative data, the relationship among knowledge, attitude and behavior can be established. Moreover, the information for instruction, cognition and activity of the citizens associated with environmental protection were collected. Under the research objective, the flow chart was designed. Rating scale analyzed via expert validity and preexamination of item analysis was used as tools to investigate knowledge, attitude and behavior of the citizens related to trash reduction and resource recovery. In this study, residents in TaoYuan Country above 18 years old were chosen as sample. Random sampling was performed via questionnaire investigation. Totally, 200 effective samples were obtained. The rate of effective recovery is 90.9%.
The obtained result reveals about 62.5-86% citizens gradually build corrective concept and cognition on the trash reduction and the resource recovery. Also, they support the policy at present. However, 62- 78.5% citizens display a passive attitude on the above-mentioned policy. And they think the policy is infant and difficultly carries out. In addition, 51-68% citizens poorly comply with the policy because the factors such as insufficient environment, unchangeable custom, considerable inconvenience, poor implementation, unable refusing and lacking information lead to the” less-environmental protection behavior ＂.
It can be found that the citizens’ environmental cognition and attitude determine their behavior. The citizens strengthen environmental protection concept to realize the impact of the improper thought and attitude on environment so as to lead the citizens to corrective environmental protection aspect and activities to solve environmental troubles and reach the sustainable development. However, environmental education needs to invest for a long time and take a great quantity of budget to train people’’s cognition, attitude and activities. Finally, tactics and objectives for environmental education will be established. | en_US |