A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This paper examines the factors that might influence recycling behaviour of the households in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Information on recycling activity, socio-economic characteristics, and attitudes of the households towards recycling were obtained from interviews with 456 households in Dhaka. Logis...

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Main Authors:	Rafia, Afroz, Hanaki, Keisuke, Tuddin, Rabaah, Ayup, Kartinah
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Language:	English
Published:	sage publication 2010
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) HB201 Value. Utility
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spelling	iium-26052012-02-09T05:50:23Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2605/ A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh Rafia, Afroz Hanaki, Keisuke Tuddin, Rabaah Ayup, Kartinah H Social Sciences (General) HB201 Value. Utility This paper examines the factors that might influence recycling behaviour of the households in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Information on recycling activity, socio-economic characteristics, and attitudes of the households towards recycling were obtained from interviews with 456 households in Dhaka. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the dominant factors that might influence the recycling behaviour of the households. The results showed that environmental consciousness, the availability of storage space, and age (25–35 years) are significant positive predictors of recycling behaviour (at the 1% level). Another variable Income 2 (TK3,000–15,000) is also positively correlated with recycling (at the 5% level).Establishment of a recycling programme could be an effective strategy in implementing sustainable waste management in Bangladesh. For this strategy to succeed, however, active partnership between households and the waste management service department is required. The households’ attitudes toward recycling should, therefore, be taken into consideration as should the results of this study, which are important indicators of households’ positive attitudes toward sustainable waste management in Dhaka. sage publication 2010-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2605/1/waste_paper-wmr.pdf Rafia, Afroz and Hanaki, Keisuke and Tuddin, Rabaah and Ayup, Kartinah (2010) A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Waste management and research, 28. pp. 552-560. ISSN ISSN 0734–242X http://www.sagepub.com DOI: 10.1177/0734242X09353434
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description	This paper examines the factors that might influence recycling behaviour of the households in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. Information on recycling activity, socio-economic characteristics, and attitudes of the households towards recycling were obtained from interviews with 456 households in Dhaka. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the dominant factors that might influence the recycling behaviour of the households. The results showed that environmental consciousness, the availability of storage space, and age (25–35 years) are significant positive predictors of recycling behaviour (at the 1% level). Another variable Income 2 (TK3,000–15,000) is also positively correlated with recycling (at the 5% level).Establishment of a recycling programme could be an effective strategy in implementing sustainable waste management in Bangladesh. For this strategy to succeed, however, active partnership between households and the waste management service department is required. The households’ attitudes toward recycling should, therefore, be taken into consideration as should the results of this study, which are important indicators of households’ positive attitudes toward sustainable waste management in Dhaka.
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author	Rafia, Afroz Hanaki, Keisuke Tuddin, Rabaah Ayup, Kartinah
author_facet	Rafia, Afroz Hanaki, Keisuke Tuddin, Rabaah Ayup, Kartinah
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title	A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh
title_short	A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh
title_full	A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh
title_fullStr	A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed	A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh
title_sort	survey of recycling behaviour in households in dhaka, bangladesh
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A survey of recycling behaviour in households in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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