Vol. 17 No. 1
Perceptual motivation of urban people in waste recycling: The dynamics of social ecology
Author(s): A. GHOSH, D. PAL, S. K. ACHARYA AND A. BISWAS
Abstract: The social ecology of waste recycling implies the structural, functional and managerial intervention of waste generation process. The present study was conducted in Kalyani and Jalpaiguri municipalities of West Bengal. Twenty one (21) independent variables and one dependent variable i.e. motivation of waste recycling (Y3) have been selected for the study. Total one fifty respondents, seventy five from each municipal area have been selected by systematic random sampling. In Jalpaiguri and Kalyani, few variables like impact of waste management on water, impact of waste management on soil and impact of waste management on agriculture have gone in the determinant way. But in both municipal areas perception of environmental impact of waste management have recorded equal contribution so it can be said that perception of environmental impact on waste management has come out as to be the most significant causal variables to characterize the entire episode of waste management process for both municipalities.
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