Environmental Education
H. Hamzeh.kalkenari; M. Jamalipour; M. Ghorbani
Volume 2, Issue 5 , November 2013, , Pages 11-18
Abstract
According to increasing waste production and scarcity of land allocated for landfill in urban areas, concerns the ecological damages caused by hazardous waste and losses incurred to the environment, municipal waste management, has been extremely important. People’s tendency to the recycling and ...
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According to increasing waste production and scarcity of land allocated for landfill in urban areas, concerns the ecological damages caused by hazardous waste and losses incurred to the environment, municipal waste management, has been extremely important. People’s tendency to the recycling and waste management influenced by various factors such as incentive action and Education. Therefore, in this study with using survey data from 391 households in Mashhad in 1391, we explored the seven policies to reduce waste produced by households. The results indicate that first of all the environmental education then considering the economic incentives and is important, later variable pricing model based on the weight and volume of waste, urban areas, chapters and ultimately increase fixed rate for garbage collection services are effective for the reduction of waste production. According to the findings, in order to control and reduce the amount of waste produced by households and reduce environmental pollution, a set of policies based on environmental education and create economic incentives were proposed for the planners of the arena.
