Murad Md Wahid, Siwar Chamhuri
Faculty of Business and Law, Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, Bukit Beruang, 75450 Melaka, Malaysia.
Waste Manag Res. 2007 Feb;25(1):3-13. doi: 10.1177/0734242X07070766.
This study assesses waste management and recycling practices of the urban poor households residing as squatters and in low-cost flats of Kuala Lumpur city, Malaysia. To attain the objective, the study employed some statistical techniques such as t-tests of equality of means, one-way analysis of variance, chi-squared 'likelihood ratio' tests, and simple descriptive statistics. The statistical techniques were used to determine and analyse the factors that significantly influence the environmental behaviour of the urban poor concerning solid waste management, particularly their recycling practices. The findings of the study show that the urban poor and low-income communities have been proved to behave in ways that are consistent with and conducive to environmentally friendly solid waste management. This study provides evidence that the urban poor and low-income communities are the main recyclers, re-users, and source-reducers of their household solid waste. The study, however, suggests that policies should be formulated to focus on promoting knowledge, education, and the skills of the urban poor and, in addition, to empower them as a means of improving their quality of life.
本研究评估了居住在马来西亚吉隆坡市棚户区和低成本公寓中的城市贫困家庭的废物管理和回收利用做法。为实现这一目标，该研究采用了一些统计技术，如均值相等性t检验、单向方差分析、卡方“似然比”检验和简单描述性统计。这些统计技术用于确定和分析显著影响城市贫困人口在固体废物管理方面的环境行为的因素，特别是他们的回收利用做法。研究结果表明，城市贫困和低收入社区的行为方式已被证明与环境友好型固体废物管理一致且有助于其实施。本研究提供的证据表明，城市贫困和低收入社区是其家庭固体废物的主要回收者、再利用者和源头减少者。然而，该研究建议应制定政策，侧重于促进城市贫困人口的知识、教育和技能，并此外增强他们的能力，以此作为改善其生活质量的一种手段。
