Raising Awareness Of Local People In Order To Effectively Implement Eco City Plan On Solid Waste Classification In Hai Phong City

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

To complete the final thesis, firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to

my advisor Dr. Tran Thi Thu Ha for the continuous support of my thesis, for her patience,

motivation, and immense knowledge. Her guidance helped me in all the time of research and

writing of this thesis. I could not have imagined having a better advisor and mentor for my

final thesis.

I sincerely thank to the leadership, corporate departments of Hai Phong urban and

environment one member limited company have created favorable conditions for me to

practice during an internship at the company.

Finally I would like say thanks to my school – Vietnam National University of Forest

has given me an opportunity to be practiced at my hometown to apply the knowledge I

learned from the school. Through this internship, I get much new and useful experience that

is helpful for my future work.

Because my knowledge is limited, this thesis may have some mistakes, I would like

to receive the comments from the teachers to help my thesis becoming more completed.

ABSTRACT

Solid waste treatment is one of the biggest challenges that people have to solve to

protect the environment. To save time in this process, solid waste classification is necessary

to be implemented at all the households. Solid waste classification at the source not only

reduces landfill area, reduces processing costs, but also has important implications in the

reuse – recycling. In Haiphong city, one project named “Eco City Plan”, which is about solid

waste classification, is carried out in the center of the city. This study was conducted to

support effectively implementation of Eco City Plan on solid waste classification in Hai

Phong city by assessing the awareness of local people on solid waste, determining factors

that affect to awareness of local people on solid waste and proposing solutions to raise

awareness of local people on Eco City Plan. Methods are used in this study are collecting

existed data, survey questionnaires and group discussion. The study found that there are

differences in knowledge about solid waste classification according to gender, age,

occupation and education level. The awareness is also affected by these factors. In general,

most of people assess solid waste classification as important and they recognized their role

as the key stakeholder to implement the project successfully. But the local people are not

prepared to implement classifying solid waste at home because most of them are confused

and do not want to waste their time. To solve these problems, The thesis proposes some

solutions as establishing environmental propaganda and education about solid waste

classification by social media, establishing solid waste practice course for local people,

adding solid waste classification as a criteria to assess the cultural family, guiding people to

classify solid waste by the guidance from project staffs, local authorities staffs and

volunteers, gathering and buying inorganic waste for recycling and educating young people

the importance of solid waste classification.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEME

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 1

2. GOALS AND (SPECIFIC) OBJECTIVES ............................................................................ 3

2.1. General objective ................................................................................................................ 3

2.2. Specific objectives .............................................................................................................. 3

3. SITE DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................................... 4

4. METHODS ........................................................................................................................... 5

4.1. Collecting data and information .......................................................................................... 5

4.1.1. Secondary data collection ................................................................................................. 5

4.1.2. Primary data collection ..................................................................................................... 5

4.2. Data analysis ...................................................................................................................... 6

4.2.1. Accessing the awareness of local people ........................................................................... 6

4.2.2 SWOT analysis ................................................................................................................. 7

5. RESULTS ............................................................................................................................. 9

5.1. The description of the respondents ...................................................................................... 9

5.2. Knowledge ....................................................................................................................... 10

5.2.1. Knowledge about solid waste classification by gender .................................................... 10

5.2.2. Knowledge about solid waste classification by age ......................................................... 11

5.2.3. Knowledge about solid waste classification by educational level .................................... 12

5.2.4. Knowledge about solid waste classification by occupation .............................................. 13

5.3. Awareness ........................................................................................................................ 14

5.3.1. Assessing the quality of solid waste collecting services ................................................... 14

5.3.2. Assessing the important level of solid waste classification by gender .............................. 15

5.3.3. Assessing the important level of solid waste classification by age ................................... 16

5.3.4. Assessing the important level of solid waste classification by educational level .............. 17

5.3.5. Assessing the important level of solid waste classification by occupation ....................... 18

5.3.6. Assessing the important level of stakeholders in solid waste classification ...................... 19

5.3.7. Assessing the level of willingness to classify solid waste ................................................ 20

5.4. Behavior ........................................................................................................................... 21

5.4.1. The number of households classifies solid waste at home ............................................... 21

5.4.2. The person usually classifies solid waste at home ........................................................... 21

5.5. Factors that affect to the awareness of local people in solid waste classification ................ 22

5.5.1 Sources of information for households about solid waste classification ........................... 22

5.5.2. Reasons for non-classify solid waste ............................................................................... 23

5.5.3. Reasons for classify solid waste ...................................................................................... 24

5.6. Assessing the status of project by strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats............... 24

5.7. Recommendations ............................................................................................................ 26

6. CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................... 29

7. REFERENCES ................................................................................................................... 30

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