Do socioeconomic factors influence households’ solid waste disposal systems? Evidence from Ghana

Abstract

en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). 'economy-wide' challenge. In addition to air pollution, flooding and public health effects, solid waste contributes to climate change through methane production (Hoornweg and Bhada-Tata, 2012). This is an indication that the situation is detrimental to sustainable development and human wellbeing. Solid waste includes all wastes generated by humans and animals that is solid and usually seen as useless and often disposed of (Chengula et al., 2015). Waste can be classified as biodegradable and non-biodegradable (Mukui, 2013). It is often an urban challenge and catalysed by population increase due to increasing waste generation associated with high population. Improper waste generation leads to a number of health and environmental challenges while there is high environmental pollution at landfill sites. Chengula et al. (2015) described inadequate waste collection as a

Modeling the Socioeconomic Metabolism of End-of-Life Tires Using Structural Equations: A Brazilian Case Study

“…The social constructs were ordered by SDF and SEF [76,77]. Social factors were introduced into the model to verify the correlation index with the SEMw.…”

“…SDF refer to a combination of social and demographic factors related to diverse characteristics of individuals (age, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, income, marital status, birth rate, mortality rate, average family size, inheritance, education, medical history) and are able to identify/recognize homogeneous social groups according to these characteristics [77]. SEF is related to the socioeconomic environment or economic factors, such as the sociological, economic, educational and professional aspects that enable the classification of an individual or group of individuals in a particular socioeconomic group [76]. In the socioeconomic environment there are direct and indirect relations of exchange of goods, consumption of materials and disposal of waste.…”

“…According to [56,117], forecasts of household waste generation are effective when family size and disposal method are considered. [76] show that the housing characteristics and household location influences solid waste disposal. Among SDF, some authors [77,118] consider the average household size, the proportion of people with higher education, the amount of housing, the purchasing power, the percentage of people employed in agriculture and the sex ratio to be important.…”

“…[124] state that SEF has a direct effect on waste generation. According to [76], SEF lead families to use a specific solid waste disposal system. [96] adopted macroeconomic indicators to assess socioeconomic metabolism and [107] explain that the amount of direct inflows in the economy significantly exceeds the direct inflows of households resulting in material stocks and impacts on SEMw.…”

Market town household solid waste management: a case study of Embu, Kenya

“…Growing quantities of complex solid waste are discarded globally (Vergara and Tchobanoglous, 2012). The problem of household solid waste management is worse in small market towns compared to large metropolis largely due to unavailability of commercial service providers (Adzawla et al, 2019). Thus a serious challenge to authorities managing waste as low income countries rapidly urbanize (Adzawla et al, 2019).…”