Data were analyzed for the two groups of respondents separately by using comparable analysis methods. Besides using descriptive statistics, the study used two econometric models: a Logit Model for estimating determinants of residents’ willingness to pay for the proposed solid waste management services for Delhi and a Probit Model for estimating mean willingness to pay (MWTP). Required statistical significance of selected variables was tested using chi-square (χ2) and t statistics. To differentiate between outcomes from the two groups, data were analyzed and compared to differentiate similarities and divergences between outcomes from the two groups. Possible reasons for similarities and divergences between the estimated findings from the two groups were tried to be identified and discussed for critical policy inputs concerning efficient management of Delhi’s solid waste related services.
As discussed earlier, the two groups i.e. intervention and control group used in the present study provided data from 100 and 279 households, respectively with the aim to estimate not only residents’ mean willingness to pay (MWTP) for proposed improved solid waste management services, but also to understand determining factors for their WTP responses. Besides, it also aimed to compare findings from two groups and see whether the interventions made had any impact on residents’ WTP behaviour or not. An attempt had also been made to identify possible reasons for similarities and
Heather Roger claims our current garbage disposal methods are short term and etiquette. Rogers’s position is clear that we need to minimize the use of landfills and create better means to discard trash. In supporting Rogers’s environment views I think that we need to create a more economic and environmental friendly garbage disposal system. Heather Rogers and Lars Eighner both acknowledge the issue with society’s throwaway mentality. Eighner proves that we throw away perfectly working stuff, having survived off others discarded materials. Eighner argues against excessive waste we create but does not have any prospected solutions. Whereas Rogers acknowledges the obvious need to minimize our consumption of waste but argues the need
Do cities and other places have to pay to recycle?”Despite decades of exhortations and mandates, it’s still typically more expensive for municipalities to recycle household waste than to send it to a landfill”(The Reign of Recycling). Recycling is more expensive but has more benefits than sending garbage to the landfill. Sending garbage to a landfill causes land pollution people need to be educated, have changed attitudes, and motivated to change and solve this problem.
Wasting is something we’re all fond of doing; it has become a very popular issue in my city. Whether arising from lack of time to consume, or greed driven. The council is stopping land fill, and having household waste collected in groups i.e. Glass, metal, food waste, plastic and paper. This assures quick delivery to recycling plants to be materially
As vice president of Association of Pickers of Jardim Gramacho (ACAMJG), Valter, explain interesting fact that almost 50% of the garbage material can be recycled but people do not pay
In 1983/84, the average amount of household rubbish per person per year in England was 397 kilograms (Defra, 2007), in the following years, this increased and by 2006/07, this figure had grown by 28 percent to 508 kilograms. This trend has been explained by the growing affluence of the general person and their greater amount of disposable income, which is then being spent on luxury products. As a result, more and more waste is being generated each year; this essay will explore the arguments around whether this ever increasing amount of rubbish has any value.
This is a crucial topic concerning the town of Arkansas City. For example, all waste mainly go to the Ark City landfill which is where all of the city trash is disposed along with at the current rate of waste the landfill has a useful life of fifty years (Broce). Through Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, the trash people, throw away can be reduced. Roughly about half of the garbage that people throw away in their trash cans can be recycling. Then to minimize waste even more in the future a town composed heap can be created in the near future from the food thrown away. Besides, the future of the city's recycling can grow much more. According to Broce, he hopes that someday in the future there will be voluntary curbside recycling. Which is very much similar to modern day trash pickup (Broce). It is always good to have a plan for the future. The idea of curbside recycling in the future is not only a great idea but also a more helpful idea for the people recycling. The more people that start recycling, the sooner this plan will be put into effect. As stated before the three R's are very important in Arkansas City and to the public works director Mr. Broce not to mention that with more time, there will be significant improvements in people's everyday environments like
Recycling is known very well to most of the United States. It has been a buzzword since my childhood in the 80's. However, many towns and metropolitans, including my home town of Savannah, have trouble getting their residents to actively participate in the recycling programs. There are many reasons people can site for not participating, some are personal issues, and some are those of the city itself. The first that comes to mind far too often is even though most solid waste can be sorted and recycled, the amount that is picked up is not even half as frequent. From a city stand point, expansion of the program itself may cause a hemorrhaging of money that can't be undone. Landfills have been an environmentally sound option for years, but they all have the same problem of finite space. On the surface it seems simple, but nothing is ever that easy. Both recycling programs and landfills cost large amounts of capital to maintain. With the goal of an environmentally stable city, landfills and their finite space will always be a problem. With vision and drive maybe the tables can be turned.
Another possible solution would be to give tax deductions or extra paybacks to those who recycle and clear a check for proper waste disposal. This could not only encourage it but also give a small economic boost.
This assignment will aim to outline the ways in which rubbish can be said to have value in a consumer society. It will attempt to outline all the various ways value is taken in one form or another from refuse which will include; the ecological value by reducing the space taken up in landfill sites, the value of profit in reducing Local Authority Costs by the selling of recyclable rubbish, the value of conserving natural resources when recycling paper, glass, plastic, clothing and IT equipment. The charitable value of providing clothing both in UK and abroad for those in need of help and food to those who might starve without the aid of charity. The value of education both in the UK and abroad in the re-distribution of IT equipment.
Welcome to K.A.S.S, we have a Hawaii like landform. We chose this location because it is environmentally sound. Our climate is pretty mild and warm. We have about 1500 people population. We have a recycling center, to reduce the amount of waste being put in our landfill. The population of our cites is large because it is well liked. We don’t have any chemicals in our landfill like system. We have a sewage power plant that discards of our trash in a safe way and we reuse it in any way possible. We also have a another way to dispose of our waste that kind of works like a landfill.
Many if not most of the products we use on a daily basis are made of recyclable materials, including glass, aluminum, paper, steel, plastic, scrap tires and used oil. And the demand for goods made from recycled products, despite a lot of ups and downs during the 1980s, has never been higher thanks to a combination of well-conceived industrial/commercial applications and much needed government purchasing mandates. Indeed, the existence of markets for recyclables has contributed significantly to recycling's success as a waste disposal alternative. What makes recycling especially unique is its implementation by local people for local people. In regards to MSW management, the federal government is relatively hands-off, and state governments have focused more of their attention on landfill and incineration options.
The average resident produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day that is buried down in landfills and litters lands costing a great amount of money. Nowadays, people face no more critical trouble than the need to save the weakening environment, mainly in urban areas, where solid wastes are uselessly dumped. It has been observed that cities have no controlled structure for garbage disposal. Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. As humanity develops new technology and equipment, the level of waste increases every day. Due to the fact that there is a huge problem with garbage disposal, government representatives must contribute to resolving
My main concern about waste disposal is toward poverty. In every society, for it to work effectively the waste disposal has to be handled properly. The lack of proper waste disposal can contribute for the underdevelopment of the community. For instance, in poorer community that does not have resources to dispose of the trash properly create a series of problems. For example, when there are a lot of trashes in a community, it will prevent investors to invest in a community, the housing market, schools and stores will decline, in consequence the houses will loose its value. This will create a ripple effect because people will start immigrating toward a better place where it is much cleaner. Families will try to move to a better place where their kids can have a better future. I ask myself who wants to live in a dirty environment? I hope nobody. That’s why I believe that the government should help the poorest communities about the ways to handle waste disposal, and better educate them about recycling.
Recycling is an essential part of reducing the amount of waste filling up landfills. Recycling materials cannot only reduce waste but pollution as well. Unfortunately the typical recycling programs such as curbside pick-up and recycling centers require significant commitment from the public to be successful which generally leads to low participation. However there may be a solution to the problem. The pollution prevention and reduction program suggests the use of materials recovery facilities. Materials recovery facilities sort out recyclable materials from other waste products such as compostable items. By sorting out the waste at one central location more items get recycled and waste is reduced without public participation. A recent article by Wang (2010) suggests, “The installation of materials recovery facilities (MRFs) can be an alternative solution to the problem of low participation of voluntary household and curbside recycling in fast-growing cities.” Materials recovery facilities can be a viable solution for waste management problems where public participation is an obstacle. This solution also provides less societal impact because lifestyle change is not as critical.
According to the sustainable-development section of SouthAfrica.Info: a survey done in 2010 showed that only 3.3% of South Africa’s urban settlements would take the initiative to recycle in their households and 27% would claim to recycle a little bit. This was an alarming figure to the ‘Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’ (CSIR), who conducted the survey. More than 42 million cubic meters of waste is produced in South Africa each year. 45% of this waste is generated alone, by the province of Gauteng. Concerned by these figures, the CSIR conducted a landfill test in 2013 whereby they established that 25% of the waste generated by Gauteng is actually recyclable waste such as: glass, paper, cans and other products. On average, every hour 250 000 plastic bottles are dumped into landfills across the country and never used again (the plastic decomposes over 700 years). 100 acres of trees are being felled every minute to produce products for people. A study showed that in every dustbin in an urban settlements home, about 60% of the waste could’ve been recycled or reused and about 50% of the organic waste could’ve been composed. These recyclable products make its way to landfills and then dumped across South Africa because the citizens living in the urban settlements (Gauteng) do not take the initiative to sort their waste at their own households.