Effectiveness of Green Chemistry in Enhancing Environmental Awareness and Concerns

3 Effectiveness of Green Chemistry in Enhancing Environmental Awareness and Concerns 

Our interview analyses revealed that students beliefs about pollution and water pollution as environmental problems were rooted in what they previously had learned in high school and they have come to know from information gathered in their encounters with different types of media. Thus, for example, one of the respondents suggested  

During secondary schooling, I learned about environment in geography. Lots of things were mentioned about environment though I can only remember some of it. Air pollution and water pollution were mainly talked about. Also, in newspapers I read about people getting sick from the polluted air. I think activities that contribute to air pollution and water pollution should be avoided. 

I learned about gases such carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxides from chemistry lessons. I think these gases pollute the environment. I am not sure about greenhouses gases. I think the factories are the main reason for these gases in the atmosphere and these factories should be banned from operating. 

Global warming is what we are experiencing now. Greenhouse gases are accumulated in the atmosphere. These gases trap the heat from being released to the outer space. [There is an] over-consumption of fossil 

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