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This research aimed to identify rural knowledge of harms of the unsafe use of plastics as a dependent variable and its correlation relationship with some rural women respondents distinguished characteristics as independent variables, also to identify their information sources about unsafe use of plastics . - Data were collected through personal interview questionnaire from a simple random sample amounted to 130 rural housewives in Merza village in In AL Mamora area, Alexandria Governorate - Frequencies, percentages, person and simple correlation coefficients and Chi square were used to analyse data and show the results. The results revealed that: - 6.2% of respondents were found in the low level category of knowledge of harms of the unsafe use of plastics. - 36.2% of respondents were found in the moderate (middle) level category of knowledge of harms of the unsafe use of plastics,while 57.6% of the respondents were found in the high level category. - There was a positive significant relationship between the respondent's knowledge of harms of the unsafe use of plastics as a dependent variable and both of respondent's job, respondent's educational status, family type, plastic purchase source, knowledge of illustrated guide and doing handcrafts as independent variables at level of significance 0.01%. - There was a positive significant relationship between the respondent's knowledge of harms of the unsafe use of plastics as a dependent variable and the respondent's age as an independent variable at level of significance 0.05. - There was a negative significant relationship between the respondent's knowledge of harms of the unsafe use of plastics as a dependent variable and both of monthly family income and participation in environmental activities as independent variables at level of significance 0.01%. - According to the respondent's information sources about the results revealed that : Television was come in the first rank (57.4 % ), then the internet come in the second rank ( 60 %), relatives come in the third rank ( 52.3 % ), then radio in the fourth rank ( 33.1 %) then health visitor, rural development an engineer, extention posts and papers and magazines with ratios ( 18.5%), ( 10%), (9.2%) (7.7 %) and ( 6.9%) respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]