Attitude towards Solid Waste Disposal in Port Harcourt Metropolis of Rivers State, Nigeria

This study focused on household willingness  and attitude towards solid waste disposal in Port Harcourt Metropolis of Rivers state.  In order to achieve the purpose of this study, six objectives and research questions, four null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 significance level. Descriptive cross sectional design was adopted for this study with the population of 282,500 households. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted for this study. A self-structured and an adapted instrument on Households Willingness  and Attiude towads Solid waste disposal. Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the reliability coefficient of 0.72 for the instrument. A Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25, was used in analyzing the data collected from questionnaire. The result of this study showed that the extent of household willingness towards solid waste disposal in Port Harcourt Metropolis was high since the grand mean of 2.52±0.98 is greater than the criterion mean of 2.50. The result of the study showed that there was no significant difference in household attitude based on gender (p>0.05).The result of the study showed that there was no significant differe nce in household attitude based on location (p = 0.628). The findings of this study shows that there was no significant difference in household attitude based on level of education (p>0.05). It was concluded that there was high extent of households willingness and attitude towards solid waste disposal in Port Harcourt metropolis. It was recommended that Government should make solid waste disposal material available for households and families to enable good practices of waste disposition so as to prevent indiscriminate dumping.

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