Abstract:
The purposes of the study of littering, segregation and disposal rate and the composition of household waste in Kanchanadit Municipality, Surat Thani Province are 1) to study the understanding level of household waste and waste segregation of People in Kanchanadit Municipality, Surat Thani Province. 2) to study the littering segregation and disposal rate and the composition of household waste in Kanchanadit Municipality, Surat Thani Province. The research sample group are 360 residences in Kanchanadit Municipality. There are different ways for research methodology. Questionnaire is used to measure the level of understanding of household waste and segregation. Regarding to the littering rate, segregation and the composition of household waste, the research data is from the examination of household waste collection in 24-hours activities by provided green, yellow and red garbage bag to selected research samples. Secondary data from July to October 2008 are relevant to the discharge rate of Kanchanadit Municipality which is colleted to reflect the discharge rate in this research. The key research results are found that the knowledge level of household waste and segregation are mainly high as the percentage of 77.20, littering rate at 0.55 kg/person/day, segregation rate of wet waste, dry waste and dangerous waste at 0.30, 0.20 and 0.05 kg/person/day, respectively. Regarding to the analysis of correct segregation of household waste, there are 78.61, 78.33 and 77.50 percentage of wet, dry and dangerous household waste, respectively. Disposal rate at 0.45 kg/person/day. The composition of household waste mostly is vegetables and food scraps.