Impact of Information Booklet on Harmful Effect of Use of Plastics in Relation to Practices among Urban Resident of Pune

Abstract

Introduction: Plastics are a wide variety of combinations of properties when viewed as a whole. They are
used for variety of items and the list could go on and on and it is obvious that much of what we have today
would not be possible without plastics
Material and Methods: An experimental study was conducted on practice of community regarding
harmful effects of plastics among urban residents of Pune city. The pre-experimental design was adopted
and 40 samples were selected through simple random sampling technique. The data was obtained from the
participants using an interview method which included details on socio-demographics of the participants,
practice of plastics. The same Questionnaire were administered after providing informational booklet as
well.
Result: The findings revealed that practice of people regarding the harmful effect of the use of plastics was
45.65 % whereas Post –test score of the practice was 55.11 %, the practices in t-Test at 0.05 level hence the
booklet in improving practice needs more hammering among the urban residents.