Development of Household Waste Management Model based on Moderation Principle of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy: A Case Study of NongPluang Sub District, Jukkarat District, Nakhon Ratchasima Province

Abstract

This study aims to develop the household model of household waste management on Sufficiency
Economy Philosophy process with Participatory Action Research (PAR). There were two main group
of samples ;Model development group with 15 of community leaders and study visitors group with

120 household leaders from 16 communities. The study separated into 3 phases ;1) Context study
2) Development of Household Solid Waste Management Prototype Process and 3) Development Results.
The study period was during February, 2016 to November, 2017. The study tools were test,
questionnaire and evaluation form. Quantitative data analyzed by frequency, percentage, average,
standard deviation and paired t-test. Qualitative data analyzed by content analysis. The result showed
that; there was 46.0% of community leaders understand the principle of solid waste management,
only 7% of them could do proper waste separation, average of solid waste production was
25.5 kilograms/household/month and there was no participation from people in the community
on solid waste management. Development of Household Waste Management Model Process: there was
5 steps process by Step1) Initiative a community selection as Pootsa village, Step 2) Capacity building
for community leaders found that the community leaders had score of knowledge, self-perception,
output expectation and waste management performance after development process higher than before
with statistically significance at 0.05 level, Step 3) Learn from success household models and Step
4) Household waste management competition, there was criteria establish as 1) Waste separation,
2) Provision fence panel around the tree 3) Organic waste management and 4) Clean areas and Step
5) Household model expansion by community that mean the study visitor group have to establish
the household models in their own community for 5 households in 15 communities, thus there were
120 household models that could manage the household waste complied with Moderation principle
of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy. The development result also found that households could reduce
their household waste to average of 5 kilograms/month.