Influencing Factors of Plastic Waste Pollution Reduction in Kinshasa

Orphe Tshinkobo Bukasa,Meng Li,Jianjun Li,Xing Rong,Sherif Abdul Ganiyu,Diana Iskakova

doi:10.4236/gep.2020.812011

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https://doi.org/10.4236/gep.2020.812011

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Abstract

Plastic products, e.g., plastic bags, plastic bottles, and other plastic materials are widely used in people’s daily life and industrial production worldwide since they are cheap, easy to get, and convenient for all-purpose of transportation or movement. The wide application of plastic products also brings a lot of problems. The significant adverse consequences include plastic waste pollution and waste of resources, which pose a high threat to social development and environmental protection. In this research, a social survey involving 267 people was conducted to examine how certain factors reduce plastic waste pollution in Kinshasa. Statistical Product and Service Solutions were employed to analyze the data gathered from the survey. The results indicate that all the factors or strategies for reducing plastic waste pollution have a significant positive impact on plastic waste pollution reduction. The environmental factors have the highest contribution to the control of plastic waste pollution with an impact of 88.8%, followed by Government policy with an impact of 42.3%. Economic factors have the least impact contribution, with an impact of 36.0%. This finding and conclusion could be used as a framework for implementing plastic waste pollution management strategies or developing waste management systems.

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Plastic materials are the most prevalent means of carriage in Kinshasa
Based on literature gather on plastic waste pollution, we propose the hypothesis that: Hypothesis 1: Economic Factors have a positive impact on Plastic Waste Pollution Reduction in Kinshasa
The analysis shows that the Economic Factors, Environmental Factors, and Government Policy are the key factors that can be implemented to reduce or mitigate plastic waste pollution in Kinshasa

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Plastic materials are the most prevalent means of carriage in Kinshasa. A large amount of these plastic materials is discarded after a single-use. Plastic contamination has exceeded pandemic proportions, with the vast amounts of plastic waste posing significant threats to environmental health both on land and in the oceans. We can do little about the vast amounts of plastic already in the oceans, but we can still do a lot to ensure we won’t be adding much more plastic waste to that already out there (Parker, 2018; Moore, 2020)

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