Survey on plastic bag

1. Presentation on survey of
plastic bags
GROUP MEMBERS
 ABHIJIT ROY
 ANUSHREE HALDER
 ATRI ROY
 MUGDHA CHAKRABORTY
 NEHA SINGH
 NILESH SAHA
 PRATIK SINGH
 RAKESH JAISWAL

2. INTRODUCTION
 Consumers start using plastic bags worldwide since
1960s.
 They are thin, flexible and easy to use.
 Used forTransporting, Carriage, Packaging.
 Most plastic bags contains polyethylene.
 These bags can be used one time, multiple times
depending upon the usage.
 The Environmental Pollution depends upon the usage of
Plastic bags.

3. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
 To spread the awareness of not using plastic bags.
 Harmful effects of plastic bags.
 To stop the overuse and over-packaging of plastic bags
in supermarket by education, publicity and better staff
training.
 To urge the government to implement polluter pays
principle by introducing plastic bags chargeable.
 Take action to change the attitude and habit of the
public.
 To educate the general public reduce overuse of natural
resources and change their wasteful habit into a habit of
bringing their own bags when shopping.

4. DATA COLLECTION AND SAMPLING
 Data Collection-
Data have been collected with the help of
questionnaire survey from different areas
 Questionnaire Survey-
It has been done consumer as well as retailers point of
view.There are 20 set of questions for consumers and 10
set of questions for retailers.
 Sampling-
The method is adopted to collect the samples has large
implications to understand the usage of plastic bags for
both consumers and retailers.

5. The data sampling has been
done on the basis of –
For Retailers
• Roadside
• Market
• Mall
For consumers
• Households
• Offices
• Schools
For Retailers
• Kirana
• Departmental
• Brand-outlets
For consumers
• Members in the
family
• Size of income
AREA
SIZE

6. DATA REPRESENTATION

7. QUESTIONNAIRE ON CONSUMERS
 DATA COLLECTED FROM CONSUMERS

8. 6%
57%
26%
11%
Uses of plastic bag according toAge
age below 20
age 20-35
age 35-50
age 50 avobe

9. Uses of plastic bag according to
occupation
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
student service business other
Useofplasticbag
occupation

10. Uses of plastic bag according to
Income
0
20
40
60
nill
less 15000
15000 to
40000 avobe 40000
42.86
20 25.71
11.43
Series 1
Series 1

11. RETAILERS QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY
DATA COLLECTED FROM RETAILERS

12. 36%
55%
9%
Retailers Usage Of Plastic Bags
AccordingToType Of Shop
kirana
departmental
brand outlets

13. CONCLUSION
 Generally Government hope that banning plastic bags
will encourage customers to use cloth bags. But unless it
is implemented, will lead to economic and environment
harm.
 There are no environmental benefits for plastic bags
even though it requires less energy to produce and
recycle.
 Plastic bags are useful but harm the environment. So the
use of plastic bags should be limited.

14. POLICY RECOMMENDATION
 According to us, Government should take steps for understanding
the seriousness of wastage of plastic bags.
 Take actions to change the attitude and habit of the public.
 To educate the public for recycling and re-using plastic bags.
 To promote public environmental awareness through application of
recycling.
 To promote usage of fabric and paper bags instead of plastic bags.
 To study the policy from other countries and push the govt to make
changes for welfare of society.
 Encourage households, shopkeepers to separate the leftover plastics
from other solid waste.

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