The Perception of Household about Solid Waste Management Issues in India

Deepali Goel; Vandna Singhal

doi:10.31305/rrijm.2023.v08.n11.020

Authors

Deepali Goel Research Scholar, Department of Economics, Arunachal University of Studies, Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh
Dr. Vandna Singhal Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Arunachal University of Studies, Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2023.v08.n11.020

Keywords:

perception, household, solid waste management

Abstract

Solid waste management issues created by homegrown, business and modern exercises is regularly unpredictably arranged off and its informal administration prompts genuine natural create natural issues. One of the significant difficulties presented by fast urbanization is the executives of waste produced by ever expanding populace. Local area interest has an immediate bearing on effective solid waste management. This paper is set out to present the in-depth perception of households regarding domestic solid waste management in Moradabad of Uttar Pradesh. The study is descriptive and cross sectional in nature. The researcher used questionnaire as the main research instrument for the study. 95 respondents were selected randomly from one zone of Moradabad. It has been found from the study that majority of the respondents were agreed to every statement of the questionnaire and no difference have been found in the perception of male and female respondents towards solid waste management practices.

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