what education do you mean? Every men know, wasting things is a bad behavior, and wasting things equal the wasting money. All of them know this.

A large portion of the older people don't care about that, but if you go look at the younger generation we are more and more aware of the problem and choose to waste as little as possible, recycling, etc...

Older people require not only the education to know of the huge consequences of bad waste disposal but also require the willpower to do something against that bad waste disposal.

Knowing that throwing garbage to the floor and polluting the rivers is bad is one thing, but knowing why is bad is another whole thing... Kids nowadays have knowledge about this, I have family members who are MDs that had no idea that plastics can cause cancer, had no idea of what microplastics were, had no idea about many facts regarding pollution and waste disposal, and we are talking about MDs from a developed country... and they aren't alone, I see a lot of older people without any knowledge or willpower to do good enviromental decisions.

The world belongs to the younger generation!