A Model Solid Waste Management of Communities in Ban Ton Nuea Subdistict, Mueang District, KalaSin Province

Abstract

This research aimed to study the 1) level of public participation in community solid waste management and 2) develop a model for public participation in community solid waste management. This research is quantitative research. The sample were 285 people living at Ban Ton area. The research instruments consisted of questionnaires. The tool for data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis, relationship coefficient, along with structural equation modeling (SEM).

          Results of research were as follows; 1) the level of public participation in community solid waste management was at a high level, by ordering the highest to the lowest as the follows: reject and recycle, reduce and repair and reuse and recycle. 2) the results of develop a model for public participation in community solid waste management is reduce and repair, reuse and recycle, reject and recycle. The data analysis with confirmatory factor analysis, model is consistent to empirically data as the statistic chi-square ( ) = 142.419,df = 120, p-value = .080, relative chi-square (c²/df) = 1.187, GFI= .949, AGFI = .927, RMR = .026, RMSEA = .029