Group 53April Chan Hiu YingNancy Lam Wai Yu

Lawrence Pong Chi KaiPresentation Date: 2/11/2007 3:30pm

http://www.rthk.org.hk/asx/rthk/tv/blueskyvision/20070224.asx

Doomsday Clock

Set by the Board of Directors at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in response to global affairs

It uses the analogy of the human race being at a time that is "minutes to midnight" where midnight represents "catastrophic destruction".

The number of minutes before midnight, a measure of the degree of nuclear, environmental, and technological threats, is updated periodically.

The clock is currently set to five minutes to midnight, having been advanced by two minutes on January 17, 2007.

Literature review

Youth environmental attitudes across 13 cities in 11 different countries in the Asia-Pacific region

Attitude: Knowledge, beliefs and behavior

---John Fien, 2000. “Young People and the Environment: Results and Implication of a Study of

Environmental Knowledge, Beliefs and Behavior in Asia and the Pacific.” in Environment, Education and Society in the Asia Pacific: Local Traditions and Global

Discourses.

The most important environmental problem for the world:

1. Damage to the ozone layer2. Deforestation 3. Greenhouse effect4. Waste disposal and treatment

Relay on government to increase the environment regulations

Few saw a role for themselves in trying to influence public opinion or government actions

Other Literature:

--- “Research on Public attitude towards environmental protection.”1997-1998.

The University of Hong Kong Public Opinion Programme,Social Sciences Research Centre of The University of Hong

Kong

--- Kent D. 1980. The Social Bases of Environmental Concern: A Review of Hypotheses, Explanations and Empirical Evidence.

The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 44, No., pp. 181-197

To check whether

people behave as what they

say.

Reduce & Reuse Paper

▪ Transform into the electrical format▪ Encourage the use of recycle paper

Air Pollutant▪ Close the incineration▪ Apply extra set up on the source of air polluant

Construction waste▪ Rate charging scheme

Corporation with others No Plastic Bag Day

(with business group)▪ The first Tuesday in

every month▪ Has been developed to

every Tuesday in some company

Control the air quality with Mainland, introducing partnership▪ mainly focuses on the reduction of the air

pollutant in the power generation and vehicle▪ Review the result every other year▪ Agree to meet the target by 2010

Education Campaign & Competition

▪ Action Blue Sky Campaign▪ Take action in the daily life

Do not wear suit in the summer Maintain the indoor temperature at 25.5 oC

▪ Energy Efficiency Labeling Scheme▪ Classify the appliance according with their efficiency

Research goal:In a macro way: 1. The awareness of “the end of the world” 2. People’s perspective on the environmental

situation in Hong KongIn a micro way: 3. To test the knowledge of the interviewees in

environmental protection sector 4. To test their environmental protection beliefs

and real practice

Research method: Online Survey, Total amount of respondents : 96

25%

21%

18%

27%

5% 4%

Public housing

Private housingowner

Hostel

Home OwnershipScheme flat

Rent house

Other

55%

45%

male

female 55, 58%

31, 32%

1, 1%

7, 7%2, 2%

primary studentsecondary studentuniversity studentemployee retired

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6 ~ 12 13 ~ 18 19 ~ 24 25 ~ 30 31 ~ 40 41 ~ 50 51 ~ 60 61 +

Part I - The awareness of “the end of the world”

90

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020406080

100

Yes No

78

43 45 38

020406080

100

NatureEnvironmental Factor

War Diseases Insufficient NaturalResources

20

3035

103

0

10

20

30

40

Very Pending Pending Satisfactory Not Pending Not Very Pending

Part II - People’s perspective on the environmental situation in Hong Kong

Part III - To test the knowledge of the interviewees in environmental protection sector

Part IV: To test their environmental protection beliefs and their real practice of

environmental protection

Conclusion

They realize the urgency of the environmental problem and approves the environmental protection

Lack of real participation

“Knowledge about the environment” rather than “Knowledge how to work for the environment”

1) No Plastic bag day @ Wellcome

2) Number of people using BYOB(Bring your own Bag)

3) Popularity of Shopping Bag

4) Recycle bin VS Rubbish bin

To see whether customers response to No Plastic Bag Day

Interview:Age group:

▪ 25-30 2▪ 31-40 9▪ 41-50 13▪ 51-60 4▪ 61+ 2▪ Total Interviewees = 30

Interviewees are mostly Housewives

Interview: Q: Do you know Today is No

Plastic Bag Day? A: Yes :25 No:5

Q: Do you support No Plastic Bag Day?

A: Yes :28 No :2

Q: Do you bring your own bag? A: Yes :21 No :9

Q: Will you support other Environmental Protection Activities, such as No Straw Day?

A: Yes :10 No: 20

To check whether customers would like to Bring their own bags to purchase

No. of Customers: 100

Some do not know Tuesday is No Plastic Bag Day There is not enough advertisement about it The Advertisement boards are not that eye-catching Staffs do not have enough trainings

Some know and support but do not bring their own bags Forget to bring their bags Inconvenient to bring bags to the supermarket

Do Not support No Plastic Bag Day They do not get used to response environmental

protection They do not care about our environment They are not willing to bring their own bags

Use Plastic Bags Easy Broken things Unsuitable Goods, such as frozen

goods, fresh meat, wet goods…. Too small own bags No intention to buy things at first

They are unwilling to support No Straw Day Inconvenient without Straw

▪ Difficult to drink▪ Possible to get themselves dirty▪ Bad feeling and unhealthy to teeth if

drinking iced drink

They Support No Straw Day they do not drink soft drink cold drink

Inside Wet market

Are all the shop provide opportunities to customer being environmental friendly?

Most of the shops do not have environmental shopping bag Plastic Bag Paper Bag

Disadvantage: Both cannot be used for many times Paper bags are not water-proof Paper bags can be destroyed easily

after getting wet Plastic bags will trap water inside

To check whether pedestrians will throw away waste that can be recycled in the right recycle bin

Video

Most likely to throw away an empty soft drink can into the rubbish bin

Unwilling to dump their rubbish until meeting a recycle bin

People do not behave in what they say.

Subjectively, they are not willing to change their life style

Objectively, external factors cannot facilitate the environmental protection

Case study on other countries Switzerland

▪ charge on the rubbish volume▪ Develop the use of recycle product

Taipei▪ Need to buy the authorized bag▪ rubbish will be collected in assigned time

slot▪ Provide alternate use of the kitchen waste▪ Issue a collection of recyclable waste

timetable▪ Responsible for the collection of large items

Singapore▪ Responsible for the

collection of the disposal of solid waste▪ door-to-door collection▪ given recycling bags, trays

or bins

▪ Solid waste disposal fees are collected through the monthly utility bills issued by the respective town councils.

Green Building Insert solar plant in the roof for

generating electricity▪ Make good use of the electricity

Garden in the midair Planting more plant

▪ Enrich the scenery▪ Improve air quality

Testing building in Tseung Kwan O The Grandiose

Restriction on the amount of waste Compulsory plastic bag size Compulsory on rubbish sorting

▪ Money penalty Reward to informer

Enhance the sorting effect Introduction of advanced products

Cooperation with business company▪ Make people believe that sorting of rubbish is

useful

Discussion

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