International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 4
First page : (1197) Last page : (1201)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.5511
Incidence Regarding Use of Plastic Bags in Food Shopping
Khushboo Shimran1*, Ravi Kumar2 and Roshan Kumar Ram3
1Birsa Agriculture Univesity, Ranchi, Jharkhand
2Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal
3ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, Maharashtra
*Corresponding Author E-mail: khushirkv001@gmail.com
Received: 20.08.2017 | Revised: 28.08.2017 | Accepted: 29.08.2017
ABSTRACT
The interest and the novelty of research converse here concern use of plastic bags in food shopping. The generic thoughts that drive this research are at what incidence adolescent girls use plastic bags. The data presented on the use of these bags indicate that 50 % of the participants always use plastic bags for food shopping. The results also presented that 40 % of girls were using it always as well as sometimes as it is convenient for shopping. It was found to be 40 % using plastic bags always and 20 % were using it sometimes as they are not aware of environmental pollution and protection. The ranking result showed that handy to use as Ist rank followed by without knowing the impact of storing food (IInd rank) and forget to take own bags (IIIrd rank), usually recyclable (IVth rank) and cheap or free of cost (Vth rank) as the main reason behind using plastic bags for shopping.
Key words: Plastic bags, Food shopping, Adolescent girls.
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Cite this article: Shimran, K., Kumar, R. and Ram, R.K., Incidence Regarding Use of Plastic Bags in Food Shopping , Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(4): 1197-1201 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.5511
