Waste Management Process to Promote on Good Environment of Local Administrative Organization

Abstract

Objectives : This research aims to examine  situation of problems and need assessment of participatory waste management, to develop model of  participatory  waste management, and to adopt model of  participatory waste management to promote  a good environmental of local government organizations to practice and evaluate.

Methods : Research  design  was  a research and development. The samples were village committee, members of tambon council, teachers, students, monks, village health volunteers tambon Thong Thani municipal municipality officer school board and 289 representative household who came from simple random sampling. Document analysis questionnaire, current situation study, and good environmental questionnaire. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and test statistics paired t-test

Results : 1) Current situation, problems and necessities of participatory garbage management in tambon Thong Thani municipal area, left garbage outside home (98.80%), members of household participated (83.70%), participation in garbage collection project (79.20%) were involved in solving problem, municipal solid waste collection (84.40%) was conducted in municipality, municipality received opinions on waste collection problems (79.20%) and municipalities played an important role in garbage collection (86.20%),  households sorted waste for disposal of some solid waste (85.80%), the highest amount of garbage were food garbages, vegetables and fruits (82.7%) and community participation in garbage separation (84.40%), In terms of solid waste disposal, most household representatives agree that municipalities should play an important role in disposal of rubbish, (85.10%), municipalities listen to suggestions and suggestions of community waste disposal (77.50%), and that problem of garbage management overall was moderate. (M = 3.26, SD = 0.18). 2) model  of participatory  garbage management  to  promote good  environment  of  local  administrative  organization consists of 5 steps: (1) problem perception (2) critical thinking stage (3) problem solving planning stage 4) implementation stage and (5) evaluation stage, and  3) after development, the target group in the experimental village had mean score, good environment in community, knowledge, attitudes, participation, and garbage management behavior overall, increase were significantly higher than comparison group (p-value <0.001) and samples were satisfied with process at a high level (M = 4.32, SD. = 0.12).

Conclusion and recommendations : Waste  management  process  in this researcf, resulting in a target group with   knowledge, attitude, participation, and waste management behavior are increase, therefore, the relevant authorities should be utilize.

 Keywords : Participatory  garbage  management,  Good  environment.