Host: Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
Name : The 29th Annual Conference of Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
Number : 29
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : September 12, 2018 - September 14, 2018
The interest in microplastics by citizens is considered to be steadily increasing; however, we do not grasp the level of citizen consciousness to microplastics. Therefore, in Osaka, we conducted educational events, lectures, and observation meeting on microplastics and surveyed citizen awareness of microbeads contained in products such as facial cleansers. There were 116 responses to the questionnaire. Aggregation of how respondents answered questions on the question of whether or not a facial cleanser containing microbeads had been used and analyzing the result by cluster analysis revealed that the existence of a group of “cautious” and a group of “no special measures are necessary”. However, in the analysis result, the answer “We should see the situation” exists independent of a group of "no special measures are necessary” and it turned out that there was a group with the middle ground.
