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| Students' Awareness on Waste Management: Their Effect on Waste Management Practices |
Annaliza Panganiban-Santos, MAEd and Ray Rudolf M. Pastrana
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Abstract:
The main problem of this study is the assessment of the students' waste management awareness on their waste disposal practices. This study made use of descriptive correlational method of research that utilized standard questionnaires as primary data gathering tools. The respondents of the study were the students in a public school in Bulacan. The results were analyzed and interpreted using statistical tests such regression analysis in determining the effect of studentsâ€(tm) waste management awareness on their waste disposal practices. Using the aforementioned procedures, the findings of the study revealed that the studentsâ€(tm) very great extent of awareness on waste management is a good indication that the school is effective in informing their staffs regarding standards, regulations, and effects of health and environment. Waste disposal practices that are done to a very great extent may be maintained but those practices with lowest means may be addressed and further strengthened. The null hypothesis, which states that studentsâ€(tm) waste management awareness does not exert significant effect on their waste disposal practices, was rejected. Implications drawn from the findings of the study are good thoughts of further improving the institutions waste management system
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