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Community response and participation. The successful recycling and recovery effort is directly related to community participationin source-level segregation. In the study area, a total of 39% of households from the 17 streets provided their waste in a segregated manner (Table 3) while 48% of households gave mixed wastes. Some of the reasons expressed by the people who sent mixed wastes were: not having enough space to keep too many dustbins in their house; not interested in investing in dustbins, either due to cost or durability; senior citizens relying on their servants for waste disposal found it difficult to insist on segregation. Of the 17 streets in the studied site, Compagine street had the maximum participation in the programme with 73% of households providing segregated solid waste(Table 3). It was observed that the residences of this street are comparatively highly educated and well aware of garbage-related issues. The
lowest segregation of MSW observed was for Rangapillai street, Perumalkovil st. and Manakula Vinayaygar Koil st., due to either a low level of awareness or the ignorance/apathy of the residents and commercial establishments. Regarding waste management behaviour, altogether 87% of residents participated with the Shuddham initiative, in which 39% segregated their waste at source level, 48% sent mixed wastes and 13% of people chose not to use the door-to-door collection systems. On enquiry, it was found that the major fraction of non-participants expressed their opinion that the timing of door-to-door collection of MSW between 6 am and 9 am was not appropriate since it was office, school or breakfast time, to which housewives devoted their major attention. Hence, they felt that it was an additional burden on their daily schedule
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