Partnerships for solid waste management in developing countries: linking theories to realities

Ahmed, Shafiul Azam; Ali, Mansoor

doi:10.1016/s0197-3975(03)00044-4

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“…The waste separation behaviour is significantly influenced by perceived behavioural control, past behaviour and intention, among which an individual's past behaviour is the strongest predictor for waste separation behaviour. In the future, policy makers should focus on residents' habit forming by providing convenient ways to separate waste and undertake intensive information campaign Examples of these policies are: installing adequate separation bins, developing mass mobilisation and community education, encouraging recycling companies, informal recycling system consisting of waste pickers, itinerant buyers, traders in waste materials and non-registered small-scale enterprises, which are suggested to largely influence the efficiency of household waste management in developing countries [8,10,[65][66][67][68][69]. Other sectors should participate in the urban household waste management.…”

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Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

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Due to the increasing waste generation over the years in China, there is an urgent need to addressing this major problem by implementing effective household waste separation programs. Although past studies have tried to explain the waste behaviour from social and psychological motivations, there is little understanding as to the impact of individual moral obligation and past experience on forming waste separating intention. The aim of this study is to investigate key determinants influencing household waste separation intention and behaviour. Based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model, we designed a survey questionnaire by taking account of determinants including residents' attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, moral obligation, past behaviour, and demographic factors, with the prediction of household waste separation behaviour in mind. After obtaining 628 valid questionnaires from households in the city of Hangzhou, the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of each construct. The results indicate that subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, past behaviour and intention significantly predict household waste separation behaviour, with past behaviour being the most significant construct to predict individuals' intention and behaviour. Additional analysis on the moderating effect of different kinds of people in terms of their genders, ages, income levels and perceived policy effectiveness, to further evoke household waste separation behaviours is also discussed. The findings suggest insightful future policies that can focus on residents' habit formation by providing the convenient location of waste separation and collection facilities, encouraging market-driven recycling programs and traders, promoting community campaigns and education which help residents to form favourable habits for protecting the environment.

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“…Among treatments, T5 (100% sewage sludge) was found to be significantly superior in all observed parameters. normally discarded as useless or unwanted or those which have lost their value to the first user and are a major cause of pollution (Mee and Topping, 1998) In developing countries, increasing waste production accompanies to urbanization (Ahmed and Ali 2004) and the waste produced generally has high moisture content and a low combustible fraction (e.g., paper and cardboard) (Ali 2003) and found to be composed of vegetative matter (44%) and inert materials (42%) in a developing country like India (Damodaran et al, 2003). Sewage sludge is a residual mixture of organic and inorganic solids derived from municipal waste water treatment.…”

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Effect of Sewage Sludge on Marigold (Tagetes erecta)

Solanki¹,

Kalavagadda²,

Akula³

et al. 2017

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

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“…The concept of waste valorisation is broader than the concept of recycling because it takes into account the commercialisation of recycled materials (Scheinberg, 2011(Scheinberg, , 2012. In developing countries valorisation activities are usually performed by informal recycling value chains (Medina, 2000(Medina, , 2007Ahmed and Ali, 2004;ILO, 2004;Wilson et al, 2006Wilson et al, , 2009Wilson et al, , 2012Gutberlet, 2008Gutberlet, , 2015Samson, 2010;Scheinberg et al, 2010;Gunsilius et al, 2011a;Ezeah et al, 2013;Linzner and Lange, 2013;Schluep, 2014;Rodic, 2015). Developing the value chain is essential to fully integrate the informal sector into the waste management system ).…”

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Applying value chain analysis to informal sector recycling: A case study of the Zabaleen

Jaligot

Wilson

Cheeseman

et al. 2016

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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A methodology has been developed to apply value chain analysis (VCA) to the informal recycling sector, and demonstrated using the Zabaleen in Cairo, Egypt as a case study. The VCA methodology provides a 'toolkit' comprising four stages. The first involves mapping the value chain and has been demonstrated using the recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles as the particular example. Stage 2 tabulates the value added at each step in the value chain; this has been demonstrated for different types of plastics as well as other recycled fractions. Stage 3 identifies and then applies a set of indicators for the development of the informal sector recycling value chain in order to address technical and socio-economic challenges. The indicators proposed are in three categories: connections in the value chain, waste valorisation and the enabling environment. Stage 4 involves developing a system dynamic map that shows connections between the indicators, and the stocks and flow variables in the value chain. In particular, it identifies the most highly connected indicators on which to focus interventions, as these are likely to have the greatest impact on the overall system. For the Zabaleen, these are improving the quality of waste inputs into the value chain through source segregation, optimising access to waste and upgrading recycling activities through access to finance and technical knowledge.

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Partnerships for solid waste management in developing countries: linking theories to realities

Cited by 219 publications

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Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Effect of Sewage Sludge on Marigold (Tagetes erecta)

Applying value chain analysis to informal sector recycling: A case study of the Zabaleen

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