Plastic Bag Diet: Economic or Environmental Motives?

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200514.032How to use a DOI?

Keywords

plastic bag diet, economic motives, environmental motives, plastic waste

Abstract

The problem of plastic waste is, in fact, not only a problem of developing countries but also of countries big in the world. The phenomenon related to the export of used paper infiltrated by plastic waste by developed countries suggests that plastic waste has become a global issue, even though there are many rules related to the use of plastic waste. In Indonesia, the plastic diet program has been launched by the Government of Indonesia since 2015. This study aims to analyze consumer behavior in plastic bag diets. Besides, this study will further examine the public’s awareness of the use of shopping bags that are strictly related to economic, environmental, or lifestyle motives. A sampling of respondents in the study based on non-probability sampling techniques, where sampling does not take into account the opportunity or likelihood of the sample unit selected or not. The non-probability method chosen was convenience sampling, which is sampling following the respondents’ willingness to be interviewed with a questionnaire. This study is divided into several section question, namely: 1) Knowledge of the Indonesian Movement Plastic Bag Program; 2) Daily Needs Shopping Location Preference; 3) Attitudes towards Indonesian Movement Diet Plastic Bags Program, and 4) Motives/Basic attitudes towards the Indonesian Movement Plastic Bag Program. The average value for each section question is on average within the agreed range. In this study, it appears that the community has two motives that underlie the behavior of the use of plastic bags, namely economic and environmental purposes.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Agustina Widi Palupi
AU  - Fithriyyah Shalihati
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/18
TI  - Plastic Bag Diet: Economic or Environmental Motives?
BT  - Proceedings of the First ASEAN Business, Environment, and Technology Symposium (ABEATS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 138
EP  - 142
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200514.032
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200514.032
ID  - Palupi2020
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