Abstract
With the significant growth of economy since 1978, environmental issues in rural area are increasingly aggravated. In this research, hierarchical liner model (HLM) was applied to estimate inflecting factors of rural residents littering solid wastes. There are 3 main results: 1) random coefficient model is an effective method to estimate rural residents’ behaviors; 2) environmental public policies should be designed by considering of regional differences; 3) enhancing education level is an appropriated way to help rural residents stopping illegal littering behaviors.
Highlights
With the significant growth of economy since 1978, Chinese life condition has been remarkably improved
Over half of rural residents declared that they were experienced of littering untreated solid wastes illegally
The environmental protection was becoming an acceptable concept for rural residents, most of they would choose to ignore in routine life due to imperfection of infrastructure and insufficiency of education or advertisement on environmental prevention
Summary
With the significant growth of economy since 1978, Chinese life condition has been remarkably improved. Environmental issues in rural area are increasingly aggravated. Industrial wastes, excessive using of fertilizers and pesticides are playing extraordinary roles in environmental pollution in rural area of China. Littering of solid wastes is making Chinese rural environment deteriorated. There are 4 elemental catalogs of rural solid wastes: 1) Crop residues, for instance straws, weeds, leaves, cirrus, etc.; 2) Livestock and poultry residues; 3) Agricultural films; 4) Manipulate and domestic wastes [1]. Solid waste is playing a vital role to damage environment out of 4 elemental catalogs [2]
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