Solid Waste Management Awareness, Attitude, and Practices in a Philippine Catholic Higher Education Institution

Madrigal, Dennis V.; Oracion, Enrique G.

doi:10.32871/rmrj1705.02.04

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“…This is because positive attitudes toward SWM might increase the likelihood of involvement in waste management. The review showed that students had a high attitude toward waste management [105,109,112,116,119,125,126,128], which confirmed the third hypothesis. However, other studies found the opposite [115,117], which results in indiscriminate disposal of waste that undermines the environmental health status of schools and residents.…”

Section: Attitude Variablesupporting

confidence: 54%

“…However, the same result was achieved about environmental attitude. This suggests that higher environmental awareness, environmental attitude, and practices committed toward environmental issues related to environmental sustainability are important to achieve overall sustainability [105,108,148,149].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Age is considered to be one of the essential variables concerning environmental education. According to Adeolu and Enesi [108] and Madrigal and Oracion [105], awareness, attitude, and practice were significantly related to age in SWM. This means that older age managed waste well.…”

Section: Solid Waste Management Students' Age Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

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Raising Awareness on Solid Waste Management through Formal Education for Sustainability: A Developing Countries Evidence Review

2021

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Solid Waste Management (SWM) is a multifaceted problem comprising political, socioeconomic, institutional, and environmental aspects. Due to exponential urban growth, it has become one of the most significant issues faced by urban spaces in developing countries. The gap in environmental knowledge among the youth and the old within developing countries contribute to ecological issues or waste management problems, resulting in unsustainable development, with important consequences in low-income countries. For that matter, a systematic review was conducted aiming to identify and analyse environmental knowledge, awareness, attitudes, and practice studies on SWM from 2010 to 2019 in developing countries. The evidence suggests that students at both secondary and tertiary levels have positive environmental attitudes, and high awareness of environmental issues, but there is a lack of practical education of teachers to guide students to put SWM into practice. Student’s low environmental knowledge is related to a deficiency in teachers’ practical experience in SWM for environmental sustainability. A relationship between teachers’ and students’ knowledge and attitudes towards SWM, as well as differences in awareness, attitude, and practices of SWM linked with education and age, were also found. This review also revealed that the lack of environmental education in most developing countries is caused by fragilities in practical environmental curricula of teachers to respond to modern-day environmental issues for sustainable development and cleaner production (CP). To bridge the knowledge gap between the youth and older people in SWM, environmental sustainability education should be integrated into schools at all levels within developing countries.

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Section: Attitude Variablesupporting

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“…Introduction. The present alarming environmental world crisis is the uncontrolled generation and illegal dumping of solid waste (SW) that poses great harm to public health and the environment (Madrigal & Oracion, 2017;Ali & Sion, 2014). Poor waste management may cause air, water, and soil contamination.…”

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“…The two topmost challenges encountered in implementing the provisions and enforcement of prohibited acts of ESWMA are insufficient financial allocation at the purok level (Srivastava et al, 2014) (Almazan & Vargas, 2016). Recommendations include "conduct of training to increase awareness" (Madrigal and Oracion, 2017) and enactment of a barangay ordinance prohibiting the single-use of plastic bags.…”

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Implementation of the Solid Waste Management of Barangays in a Highly Urbanized City

Go¹,

Caelian

2020

PSSJ

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The present alarming environmental world crisis is the uncontrolled generation and illegal dumping of solid waste (SW) that poses great harm to public health and the environment (Ali & Sion, 2014). Poor waste management may cause air, water, and soil contamination. The Republic Act 9003 (RA 9003) or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act (ESWMA) had been in place for several years. However, its implementation was a challenge for every LGU, including in a highly urbanized city. Hence, the paper examined the level of implementation of the provisions and enforcement of prohibited acts on ESWMA of barangays as assessed by community leaders as a whole and according to their geographical location and income. Also, it explores the challenges encountered by the barangays and the recommendations of the community leaders in the implementation of RA 9003 and the local ordinance enacted by the city.

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Perceptions of the academic community on the performance of sustainable development initiatives in higher education

Filho,

de Vasconcelos,

Ferreira

et al. 2023

Sustainable Development

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Since the UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm in 1972, higher education institutions (HEIs) have been adapting to assume their social role in supporting societies in promoting sustainable lifestyles. However, HEIs are complex institutions composed of several interdependent subsystems. Sustainable improvement requires holistic assessment measures to comply with established goals. To date, few studies have focused on comparing the different perceptions of sustainability in HEIs and considering the views of the academic community in shaping the efforts and better disseminating sustainable development initiatives. To fill this gap, this work aimed to implement a methodology that compares the perceptions of sustainability and the implemented actions among members of HEIs to show the discrepancies between perceptions and facts. Many studies report either the perception of members of the academic community or the technical assessment of the sustainable performance of the institution in isolation. The novelty of this work lies in developing a tool that allows the use of a similar scale to compare the perception of users of academic services with the valuation attributed by technicians responsible for implementing sustainable development initiatives at HEIs. Analysing of these results enables the identification of dimensions with discrepancies, guiding managers as they carry out actions to promote greater community engagement in implementing sustainability initiatives that boost the consolidation of these values in the institutional culture. Additionally, it is highlighted that the proposed methodology could be adapted for use in other types of institutions, maintaining the same benefits described here.

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Solid Waste Management Awareness, Attitude, and Practices in a Philippine Catholic Higher Education Institution

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Raising Awareness on Solid Waste Management through Formal Education for Sustainability: A Developing Countries Evidence Review

Raising Awareness on Solid Waste Management through Formal Education for Sustainability: A Developing Countries Evidence Review

Implementation of the Solid Waste Management of Barangays in a Highly Urbanized City

Perceptions of the academic community on the performance of sustainable development initiatives in higher education

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