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Plastic affects human health. Toxic chemicals leach out of plastic and are found in the blood and tissue of nearly all of us. Plastic spoils our groundwater. Plastic attracts other pollutants. Plastic threatens wildlife. Plastic poisons our food chain. Plastic cannot biodegrade. People use in our day today life plastic in excessive quantity threat causes environment pollution which creates lots of health problem, so its need aware the people hazards of polythene. The main objectives of the study were to study the personal, economic and social characteristics of the rural women, to design implement educational programme for rural women about hazards of polythene, to study the effect of educational programme on rural women about hazards of polythene to establish relation between dependent and independent variables. After intervention of programme the mean of the knowledge (38.68) of the respondent after exposing them to programme found to be higher than the mean of knowledge (25.21) of the respondent before imparting to them. The mean score of the respondent after exposure to the programme over the mean score of the respondent before imparting programme is not a conclusive proof of its superiority, 14.44 found to be significant at 0.05 level of probability.