Do you waste a lot of household products?

By: Mia Guerrero

Figure 1 Households' challenges in packaging waste management 


Solid waste is the most produced trash in the country. With the higher birth rates, we see a greater consumption of world waste each year and very few get recycled. Solid waste disposal is very disorganized, from high income countries to low income countries, we see too much waste getting thrown out illegally. As for the destruction of the waste, household products are mainly thrown out in landfills or incinerated. However, some household commercial products are reused and recycled. In this study, they were able to measure the actual recovery and theoretical rate on a households' recycling and packaging waste to determine the waste generated in Kota Samarahan. Based on the results, we can see that 180.638 kg of record waste in 2019 increased by 10.75% in 2020 (Basil et al., 2022). This shows there was a significant increase in the wasted household produced, it is said to crucially increase each year. Due to the community's lack of self awareness to the country's increasing landfill, we can gather that people can easily contribute to the increasing pollution with their amount of waste being produced. This can contribute to environmental sustainability, people can be self aware of how much household waste they actually produce with this data.



Reference: 

Basil, F. F., Tamyez, P. F., Zahari, A. R., Yao, L., & Ahmarofi, A. A. (2022). Packaging waste generation by households: A mixed method study. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2022.2073090

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