摘要：To ascertain the actual state of awareness and activities toward waste and environmental problems among women's college students, we sent out a questionnaire to 175 students in 1994 and 143 in 1998. Many students had a sense of impending crisis about environmental problems but only a few students were interested in and paid attention to them. Although there were some changes over four years, there was a tendency for the situation to improve with changes in social conditions. The students who were interested in issues familiar to them rather than global ones acted proactively, especially those students with a positive attitude toward recycling demonstrated initiative and took action. In most households, the mother of a family was primarily responsible for waste management and recycling. This suggests that it is important that family members, especially males, change their attitudes toward and cooperate in the waste management at home. A home may be the most suitable place for practical education to improve waste problems and it is clear that the attitude of the mother and her leadership play an important role. Therefore, it can be claimed that environmental education among women's college students is important.
关键词：waste problem;ゴミ問題;environmental problem;環境問題;awareness and activities;意識と行動;women's college student;女子短大生;environmental education;環境教育
