Household recycling knowledge, attitudes and practices towards solid waste management

作者: Ali Akbar Babaei , Nadali Alavi , Gholamreza Goudarzi , Pari Teymouri , Kambiz Ahmadi

DOI: 10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2015.06.014

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摘要: Abstract A questionnaire survey consisting of 2400 householders was performed on Abadan residents to evaluate their knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards solid waste (SW) reduction, source separation recycling, collection willingness pay (WTP) for SW services. The study has also covered the relationship between demographic variables KAP management. data analyzed suggests that studied community had a very positive attitude take part in recycling plans. However, respondents not only showed low intimate knowledge different steps management, but were weak about these steps. influenced by factors age, education level, gender occupation. It further found level occupation two significant affecting residents’ WTP (χ2 = 24.083, p-value

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