Role of women's participation in household’s solid waste management in Kathmandu metropolitan city ward no. 32, Nepal

Abstract

Solid waste management (SWM) has become a major concern for municipalities and the country, the current state of SWM is unknown due to a lack of SWM baseline data, which is required for successful planning. In Nepal, SWM is a prominent problem of administration. The study on the role of women in household solid waste management tries to analyze women's participation in household solid waste management. This study applied a quantitative research approach and survey method. Required data were collected from 273 respondents women selected randomly. In doing so, a household survey technique with the tools Cornbrach's Alpha (value 0.97) has been used. The validity for Practices of solid waste management scale and level of awareness is 0.701 which means no issue of content validity. This study used SPSS version 20 for organizing, summarizing, describing, and generalizing the data. This research found that the role of women has a significant impact on solid waste management. The research studied the practice of solid waste management, awareness of solid waste management, and the role of women in solid waste management. 272 (99.6%) knew solid waste management and 196(71.8%) did not have training of the SWM. Households 256(93.6%) produce usually produced kitchen waste and plastics are produced often by 160 households paper and cartoons were produced usually and often and tins, cans fiber bags, and glass are produced rarely. Most of the respondents 228(83.5%) stated that they segregated the waste into sources. The reason for no separation of SWM was municipal does not take waste separately and most of the respondents 154 (56.4%) use the recycled SW and used it for their reuse. 162 (59.3%) of the respondents compost organic waste and about 98(35.9%) of the respondents compost in an old bucket. About 162 (59.3%) respondents were engaged in rooftop gardening and Among 162 respondents 64 respondents were engaged in terrace gardening, 81 respondents were engaged in sack and bucket gardening and 17 respondents are involved in small kitchen gardening. The findings of the study are women are major clients of solid waste management services. The women are aware of the impact of poor SWM but the government does not have a proper policy for proper disposal. Households are no access to training or awareness programs of SWM. Household women involved in roof toping gardening are more likely to manage SWM properly. Women play a significant role in household SWM and strongly agree SWM is their responsibility.