Assessing People’s Behavior towards Recycling, a Case of Upper Claremont South Africa

APA 6th edition
In-text: (Anyasi & Atagana, 2017)
Your Bibliography: Anyasi, R.O. & Atagana, H.I. (2017). Assessing People’s Behavior towards Recycling, a Case of Upper Claremont South Africa. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 12(8), 1751-1764.

Harvard
In-text: (Anyasi and Atagana, 2017)
Your Bibliography: Anyasi, R. and Atagana, H. (2017). Assessing People’s Behavior towards Recycling, a Case of Upper Claremont South Africa. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 12(8), pp. 1751-1764.

Chicago 16th edition
In-text: (Anyasi and Atagana 2017)
Your Bibliography: Anyasi, R. O. and H. I. Atagana (2017). "Assessing People’s Behavior towards Recycling, a Case of Upper Claremont South Africa". International Journal of Environmental and Science Education 12 (8):1751-1764.

Abstract

This paper aimeds to survey the behaviour of households towards recycling as a sustainable means of waste management. This is to establish the impact of such behaviour in limiting the success of recycling practise. 400 randomly selected households in the suburb of Upper Claremont in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, were used in the study. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire targeted at the head or breadwinner of each household in the area. Analysis of the results showed that 67.3 % of the sampled households do not recycle waste, meaning that many efforts should be geared towards awareness creation for people to understand the benefits. There was lack of basic recycling education and guidance and inadequacy in infrastructure and services and it negatively deters the interest for recycling. Pearson correlation analysis showed a significant and positive relationship (r = 0.89, p = 0.003) (significant level at p ˂ 0.05) between waste management concerns and the responsibility taken by the households in their individual recycling ability. SWOT analysis conducted indicated an increase in environmental awareness as the strength, insufficiently developed recycling collection infrastructure as the weakness, development of convenient recycling collection infrastructures and incentives like tax reduction as opportunities, while the threats has to do with the fact that recycling may not become financially rewarding on the short run. It was recommended government should do more installing more convenient recycling depots in Upper Claremont area, as well as raising environmental awareness campaigns.

Keywords: Recycling survey, Household Waste management, Upper Claremont, Peoples behaviour, SWOT analysis

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