DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-820-7-0091

HOUSEHOLDS' WASTE MATERIAL MANAGEMENT AND RECYCLING: HOW MUCH CONCEIVABLE TO SUPPORT A ZERO-WASTE MANAGEMENT

Arif Ibne ASAD, MD. Sohanur RAHMAN, Samira AKTER

Purpose: The paper aims to understand household waste material management and recycling in Rajshahi City Corporation in Bangladesh and how much the city dwellers can support zero-waste management in the future.
Design/methodology/approach: The investigation was based on a primary survey between 2019 and 2020. Researchers arbitrarily chose 120 family units; respondents were asked to answer a structural questionnaire on households' waste management (HWM), recycling and Perception to attain a zero-waste management goal. The analysis was done through descriptive statistics and logistic regression models.
Findings: The respondents have a sound understanding of the health consequences of waste-related pollution. The logistic regression models demonstrated that education and awareness of households are positive and significantly related to recycling
Research limitations: Difficulties in looking at a randomly chosen holding number and the unwillingness of the household members to clarify their genuine pay level were the few troubles in the research.
Practical implications: The study reveals that 88 % of the respondents were known to HWM beforehand, and 54% concurred to see a moderately vibe of local ambience compared to the past five years. Social implications: Our study would motivate to attain zero-waste management in the Rajshahi city in future as the households welcomed an approach of recycling, reducing or refusing to buy things with lots of packaging.

Keywords: recycling, household waste management, logistic regression model, Rajshahi city corporation

pages: 91-99, Published: 2021, online: 2021