Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to investigate the household willingness to pay (WTP) for improved solid waste management in Thu Dau Mot city, Binh Duong by using Dichotomons choice Contingent Valuation Method. A questionnaire was designed to draw a sample of 330 respondents for the study. The results show that mean household willingness to pay for solid waste management system in Thu Dau Mot is about 24 thousand VND/ month/ household, higher than the current fee (20 thousand VND month/ household).The paper used a logistic regression to establish the factor affecting to the household willingness to pay for solid waste management system. The logit results show that those with a higher income and more educated is willing to pay more for improvement in management of their solid waste. Also, more environmental aware the person the more they are willing to pay. Moreover, females are less likely to give a positive response to WTP compare to male.
Highlights
Thu Dau Mot is one of the economic, financial and cultural centres of Vietnam with 28 industrial parks
The continuous growth of economic and population has brought a new challenge to the local government especially in dealing with the issue of municipal solid waste disposal, domestic household wastes
-Section 4: Contingent Valuation question designed to estimate willingness to pay for improved solid waste management system in Thu Dau Mot city
Summary
Thu Dau Mot is one of the economic, financial and cultural centres of Vietnam with 28 industrial parks. The continuous growth of economic and population has brought a new challenge to the local government especially in dealing with the issue of municipal solid waste disposal, domestic household wastes. There are 120 tons domestic household wastes generated per day, with 70% is collected and 30% is illegally dumped. Further with increase horizontal expansion of Industry Park, it has become very difficult to find adequate waste disposal sites in the future. The city is facing with many problems regarding pollution and health because the local waste management system cannot cope with the volumes of wastes being generated. One of the approaches has been considered by local authority is to increase frequency of collecting waste and number of vehicles of collection
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