Awareness, Attitude, and Concerns of Workers and Stakeholders of an Environmental Organization Toward the Environment

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1. Siham H. Shoukry[1][1] 2. Samia G. Saad[2][2] 3. Ayman M. Eltemsahi[3][3] 4. Mostafa A. Abolfotouh[2][2] 1. 1Alexandria Sanitary and Drainage Company, Egypt 2. 2University of Alexandria, Egypt 3. 3Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt 1. Mostafa A. Abolfotouh, Biobanking Section, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud Bin-Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh 11426, Saudi Arabia Email: mabolfotouh{at}gmail.com Environmental issues such as environmental attitudes are important socioenvironmental subjects for the non-Western countries such as Egypt. This study aimed to determine levels of attitude, awareness, and concern toward environmental issues among Alexandria Sanitary and Drainage Company (ASDCO) workers and stakeholders. A total of 284 participants (199 [70%] workers and 85 [30%] stakeholders) were surveyed by the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale of environmental attitude. Descriptive and analytic statistics were applied, and significance was considered at p ≤ .05. Respondents showed low awareness to environmental laws and guidelines (23.8% ± 33.2%), neutral attitude toward ecological issues (66.1% ± 6.2%), and high concern about different environmental problems (74.5% ± 26.3%). Awareness score was significantly and positively associated with attitude (χ2 = 8.63, p = .013) and worry (χ2 = 8.68, p = .013) scores. Respondents are quite aware that legislation is the key role in protection of environment. This study reflects low level of knowledge and high concern to different environmental problems. Knowledge is consistently and positively related to attitudes. Planning training and management needs to be linked to the environmental goals and objectives of the company. [1]: #aff-1 [2]: #aff-2 [3]: #aff-3