Community Participation on Solid Waste Segregation Through Recycling Programmes in Putrajaya

Malik, Nur Khaliesah Abdul; Abdullah, Sabrina Ho; Manaf, Latifah Abd

doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2015.10.002

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“…In another study from Surabaya (Indonesia), Dhokhikah et al [31] reported that the respondents did not sort and recycle household solid wastes due to lack of time, absence of tradition in separation of waste at source, shortage in collection facilities, inadequate knowledge, and apathy towards recycling as it lacks incentives. Similar attitudes to recycling were also observed among the urban residents of Hat Yai (Thailand), Mekelle (Ethiopia), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Putrajaya (Malaysia), and some other Indonesian cities [26,[32][33][34][35]. In China, Xiao et al [28] explored public willingness to participate in waste management practices in the city of Xiamen and they found that the residents' environmental knowledge and social motivation had the strongest positive effects on their willingness to participate in waste management activities.…”

Section: Public Attitudes To Recycling In the Developing Countriessupporting

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Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

Halder

Singh²

2018

Recycling

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India is currently facing a mounting challenge related to municipal waste management, due to an increasing urban population, and their high consumption lifestyles. India also has the world's highest number of young people in the 10-24 years age group. The study applied the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model to predict school students' recycling intentions in Delhi, the capital of India and one of the highest producers of municipal solid wastes in the country. Data were collected from a school in New Delhi and the sample size consisted of 272 students from 9th and 10th grades. The TPB model explained 56% of the variance in the students' intentions to recycling. The predictor 'subjective norm' appeared to have the strongest impact on the students' recycling intentions, followed by 'attitude' and 'perceived behavioural control'. It indicated that social factors are driving the Indian youth's recycling intentions. It is important that the policymakers promote recycling as a social trend in India and provide adequate facilities to the public so that they can participate in recycling activities without facing difficulties. Schools also have a role in increasing students' awareness of recycling and motivating them to participate in household waste management practices.

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Section: Public Attitudes To Recycling In the Developing Countriessupporting

confidence: 62%

Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

Halder

Singh²

2018

Recycling

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“…That is, they embraced a system in which waste is managed by local authorities. Local government departments oversee conventional SWM centrally and the costs of waste removal are fixed by the government [3,7,8]. In other words, waste management is generally seen as the responsibility of the local authority alone.…”

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Participation in Community-Based Solid Waste Management in Nkulumane Suburb, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Sinthumule

Mkumbuzi

2019

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After years of conventional approaches to solid waste management (SWM), in 2009, Bulawayo City Council adopted a non-conventional approach in the form of community-based solid waste management (CBSWM). The success of a CBSWM depends on the participation of members of the public as well as private sector organisations. Yet there is no information documented about their involvement in such activities in the study area. This study provides an analysis of citizen knowledge, participation and their attitudes in SWM in Nkulumane suburb following implementation of a CBSWM project. Door-to-door surveys were undertaken in December 2017 and January 2018 during which interview-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from 375 randomly-selected households. Semi-structured interviews were also used to gather data from officials responsible for CBSWM. The study found that the CBSWM has not been successful in changing the waste disposal behaviour of citizens. It was also found that the community-based organisations (CBOs) have made no effort to implement alternative waste management practices of waste recycling and composting. Furthermore, lack of funds to improve waste infrastructure and infighting between the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) and the Bulawayo City Council have undermined the principles of CBSWM. The study concludes by suggesting strategies that could improve CBSWM in developing countries.

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“…The results indicated that more efforts by the municipal councils are puts in place to achieved desire needs of the populace [61] but it is not in agree with [62], this may be in connection with years of findings. However, recent development in service delivery in many municipal councils revealed that citizens' needs and wants are being taking care of as opined in [63][64][65]. Apparently, citizens' needs and wants is keep on changing due to time and socio-cultural advancement which makes municipal councils administrators faced different challenges [66,44].…”

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A Review of Effects of Quality Municipal Services on Citizen Satisfaction in Malaysian Municipal Council: A Content Analysis

Mu¹,

Martín²,

Kasim³

2017

Glob J Res Rev

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Government was established primarily to provide services that will make life worth living to their citizens. Accordingly, local governments as third tier government in Malaysia are created to bring government closer to the local communities' at the grassroots and for transformation of lives at the rural level. One of the ways of bringing government closer to the people at the grassroots is through the delivery of service in a satisfactory, timely, effective and adequate manner. This paper is therefore an examination of Local Government and Municipal Service Delivery in Malaysia. It argues that the constitutional mandate of local council in terms of "function performance" has not been translated into reality in many occasions. Thus, the paper concludes and recommends that municipal council must attempt to overcome the challenges that have by-passed their performance. It is only by this can they be positioned to render cutting services in a timely, effective, adequate, prompt and satisfactory manner to justify their continuous existence and huge financial allocations to them. Municipal awareness also gives a sense of satisfaction of the citizens. The study recommends that there is needs for local municipal to be strategies to makes the local council more robust for enhancing the lives of inhabitants and to foster good relationship between the management and local people in the area. The study also gives recommendation of enlighten the local community on the important of community participation in provision and maintenance of public service delivery. Secondly, the study is significant because it will expand the frontier of knowledge by identifying factors influencing service delivery in Malaysian Local Government Areas. These factors when clearly identified will go a long way in providing answers to questions like why service delivery has not improved in Malaysian local government councils despite huge financial allocations from the Federation Account. Furthermore, the research is justified on the grounds that its recommendations will enhance policy decisions of government agencies like the Local Government Service Commission. In addition, members of the public will find the paper an educative and resource material. Future researchers on service delivery in Malaysian Local Government Areas will find the study a rich resource material for their research. A study of this nature is a training ground for the conduct of cutting edge research in the field of Public Administration and Local Government Studies. Keywords Municipal councils in MalaysiaThere are 39 municipal councils in Malaysia which are accountable for providing public goods and services to every group of people that live within their localities. The greatest contribution provides by the local government is by performing efficient and effective service delivery, predominantly to those who currently have little access or even no access to these services. Therefore, the local authorities in Malaysia power expanded with a complete set of functions and ...

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Community Participation on Solid Waste Segregation Through Recycling Programmes in Putrajaya

Cited by 56 publications

References 12 publications

Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

Participation in Community-Based Solid Waste Management in Nkulumane Suburb, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

A Review of Effects of Quality Municipal Services on Citizen Satisfaction in Malaysian Municipal Council: A Content Analysis

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