The study on sixth graders’ cognition of food waste at elementary school in PingTung County

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 環境工程與科學系所 === 99 === Amount of food waste is 6400 tons/ day in Taiwan. If people have good recycling behavior and development of diverse pathways of food waste recycling, we would have sustainable use of recourse. This research is discussing about sources of food waste knowledge...

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Main Authors: Chin-Lan Tsai, 蔡金蘭
Other Authors: Lien-Te Hsieh
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20132981184161296547
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Summary:碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 環境工程與科學系所 === 99 === Amount of food waste is 6400 tons/ day in Taiwan. If people have good recycling behavior and development of diverse pathways of food waste recycling, we would have sustainable use of recourse. This research is discussing about sources of food waste knowledge of sixth graders, the situation of food waste recycling, and the students’ perception of food waste. This research adopted questionnaires as a quantitative study. The objects of this research are the sixth graders at elementary school in PingTung County. The method of questionnaire survey is quota sampling. There were 939 valid questionnaires among 23 schools were returned.The researcher analyzed these by using the descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variances etc.. There are three major findings of this study:(1) The results show that sixth graders’ origin of knowledge of food waste is as follows: parents(54.2%), teachers(33.0%), television(4.7%), newspapers and magazines(2.8%), Net(2.4%), classmates(2.0%), others(0.9%). (2) The factor of different background influences students’ perception of food waste. The girls’ perception of food waste is better than boys’. Students who study in the countryside or city have better perception of food waste than those in the mountain area or in the coastal area. Students from high or middle socio-economic status families have better perception of food waste than those from low socio-economic status families. (3) The rate of situation of family food waste recycling is as follows: do it everyday(50.6%), do it usually(26.8%), do it sometimes(11.1%), never do it(2.6%), I don’t know(8.9%).