Research on the use of collection site and health

Abstract

We conducted a questionnaire survey on user attributes, the actual use of resource recovery sites, and frailty factors for 303 users of environmental facilities and facilities for the elderly in Fukuoka City. As a result, there is a significant difference in the number of collection sites used and the number of types of resources sorted between the healthy group and the frailty group, meaning a relationship between the resources recycling action of elderly people and their health. In addition, the number of collection sites used by the elderly people in a physically weakened state tended to be small. It indicates the need for arranging collection sites that are easy to use for elderly people with physical abnormalities in order to increase the resource recovery rate. Furthermore, there was no significant difference between the healthy group and the frailty group in the number of collection sites used and the number of sorted resources among users of environmental facilities, suggesting that the environmental awareness fostered during healthy conditions would work preferentially in resource recovery action even if they had physical abnormalities.