• Naresh Salvi
• Vipin Tanwar

The global environment is changing day by day and now it has become challenge to living life forms due to very ugly fact that every nation is trying to develop their countries without taking into environmental impact of degradation. People are using plastic bag which are environmentally dangerous products and harmful to health. The impact of plastics in their numerous desirable properties made diverse material properties of plastic such as resistance to chemicals and, ease of shaping and molding, has contributed to the development of high-volume manufacturing facilities enable of producing millions of tons of plastic products per year. Plastic waste in India is about 4.5 million tons a year and It take 500- 1000 years to degrade. In future, there is already a strong global movement to ban plastic as it can cause damage, not just to the environment but also human beings. “A study to assess the effectiveness of information booklet regarding ill effects of plastic materials use on health and environment among street food vendors at selected urban area of Bhopal (M.P.).” Objectives: To assess the pretest and posttest level of knowledge regarding ill effects of plastic material use on health and environment among street food vendors at Bhopal. To determine the effectiveness of the information booklet regarding ill effects of plastic material use on health and environment among street food vendors at selected urban area Bhopal. To find out the association between post-test knowledge level and selected demographic variables on knowledge regarding ill effects of plastic material use on health and environment among street food vendors at selected urban area of Bhopal. The research approach adopted for this Study was quantitative research approach. A descriptive research design will be used for this study. Formal permission was obtained from the medical officer Kolar Bhopal. The investigator selected 60 samples by non-probability convenient sampling technique. After obtaining informed and written consent approximately 8-10 samples were selected everyday A pre-test was conducted by using a structure questionnaire, followed by Information Booklet to the participants regarding ill effects of plastic usage. After 7 days post-test was conducted. The finding of the study revealed that Information Booklet had improved the knowledge of street food vendors regarding ill effects of plastic usage. In pretest street food vendors had 7.4 mean score and in post-test homemakers had 16.7 mean score. The difference is 9.3 score. There is a statistically significant difference between pretest and posttest. Difference between pretest and posttest score was analysed using paired t-test. The computed ‘t’ value (t=12.9) was higher than the table value (t=2.05) at 0.05 level of significance. The result study shows that Information Booklet was effective

ill effects of plastics, video assisted teaching, Food vendors

"“A study to assess the effectiveness of information booklet regarding ill effects of plastic materials use on health and environment among street food vendors at selected urban area of Bhopal (M.P.).” ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 5, page no.d203-d207, May-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2405322.pdf

"“A study to assess the effectiveness of information booklet regarding ill effects of plastic materials use on health and environment among street food vendors at selected urban area of Bhopal (M.P.).” ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 5, page no. ppd203-d207, May-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2405322.pdf