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Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city

Waste reduction and waste separation are two preferred practices in sustainable solid waste management (SSWM). These two methods are seemingly impossible to implement without high awareness within the communities as well as a strong commitment and support from the city authorities. Despite the limit...

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Main Authors: Permana, Ariva Sugandi, Towolioe, Sherly, Abd. Aziz, Norsiah, Siong, Hochin
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2015
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TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/56190/1/ArivaSugandiPermanaSherlyTowolioeNorsiahAbdAziz2015_SustainableSolidWasteManagementPractices.pdf
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.05.028
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spelling my.utm.561902024-01-08T10:00:47Z http://eprints.utm.my/56190/ Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city Permana, Ariva Sugandi Towolioe, Sherly Abd. Aziz, Norsiah Siong, Hochin TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Waste reduction and waste separation are two preferred practices in sustainable solid waste management (SSWM). These two methods are seemingly impossible to implement without high awareness within the communities as well as a strong commitment and support from the city authorities. Despite the limited extent of these practices, this study attempts to analyze the current SSWM practices in Makassar City, Indonesia. The SSWM practices focused on waste separation and waste recycling. Assessing waste separation and recycling practices were carried out by field observations, focus group discussions, interviews with the actors, and a questionnaire survey. To avoid significant bias in the responses on perceived cleanliness of the city, we classified the respondents into three groups. Group 1 consists of all eligible members of local communities involved in daily solid waste management activities - common households. Group 2 consists of those actively involved in waste separation activities - SSWM households. Group 3 was composed of those institutionally responsible for conducting solid waste management. The primary result of this study shows that the presence of community practices on waste reduction and waste separation was strongly correlated to a sense of cleanliness in the community. This result implicitly indicates that by a using positive environmental image and performance within a locality, the community can become enthusiastically involved and push for sustainable SWM practices. Elsevier Ltd. 2015-10-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/56190/1/ArivaSugandiPermanaSherlyTowolioeNorsiahAbdAziz2015_SustainableSolidWasteManagementPractices.pdf Permana, Ariva Sugandi and Towolioe, Sherly and Abd. Aziz, Norsiah and Siong, Hochin (2015) Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city. Habitat International, 49 . pp. 197-205. ISSN 01973975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.05.028 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.05.028
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topic TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
spellingShingle TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Permana, Ariva Sugandi
Towolioe, Sherly
Abd. Aziz, Norsiah
Siong, Hochin
Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city
description Waste reduction and waste separation are two preferred practices in sustainable solid waste management (SSWM). These two methods are seemingly impossible to implement without high awareness within the communities as well as a strong commitment and support from the city authorities. Despite the limited extent of these practices, this study attempts to analyze the current SSWM practices in Makassar City, Indonesia. The SSWM practices focused on waste separation and waste recycling. Assessing waste separation and recycling practices were carried out by field observations, focus group discussions, interviews with the actors, and a questionnaire survey. To avoid significant bias in the responses on perceived cleanliness of the city, we classified the respondents into three groups. Group 1 consists of all eligible members of local communities involved in daily solid waste management activities - common households. Group 2 consists of those actively involved in waste separation activities - SSWM households. Group 3 was composed of those institutionally responsible for conducting solid waste management. The primary result of this study shows that the presence of community practices on waste reduction and waste separation was strongly correlated to a sense of cleanliness in the community. This result implicitly indicates that by a using positive environmental image and performance within a locality, the community can become enthusiastically involved and push for sustainable SWM practices.
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author Permana, Ariva Sugandi
Towolioe, Sherly
Abd. Aziz, Norsiah
Siong, Hochin
author_facet Permana, Ariva Sugandi
Towolioe, Sherly
Abd. Aziz, Norsiah
Siong, Hochin
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title Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city
title_short Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city
title_full Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city
title_fullStr Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city
title_sort sustainable solid waste management practices and perceived cleanliness in a low income city
publisher Elsevier Ltd.
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