Assessment of solid waste management among households in New Juaben Municipality

Abstract

The quality of living in a country can be compared with the standard of solid waste management. Efficient solid waste management must consider the cultural, social, and economic circumstances of a country while coordinating the efforts of the people on a local level. The study intends focused on New Juaben because of its relevance to the purpose of the study, regarding its huge population and also serves of the fasted developing area in the country. A total number of hundred and twenty (130) respondents were targeted and selected areas were stratified, systematic sampling and random sampling procedure was used to administer questionnaire to the respondents. Data collected was analysed with the Statistical Package for Social Scientist (SPSS) software. The study revealed that 43. 8 percent were in engaged in communal dumping disposal practices ,33.8 percent engaged in house to house collection,19 percent managed their waste by burning and communal dumping and 3.1 percent engaged in burning and burying. Also, most of the people in the municipality produced plastic waste (84.6%) ,13.8 percent produced was organic while 1.5 percent was fabric. The following key findings were established to be the factors affecting effective solid waste management in the Municipality. These are inadequate skip supply for storing waste, improper disposal of waste, poor of routine collection of waste produced and inadequate waste collection receptacles. In the light of these problems enumerated above, the research recommended the adequate supply of receptacles, regular collection of waste, organization of communal labour to work on dumping sites, use of proper management of the landfill and adequate resourcing of the waste management institutions.