Naz, Antonia Corinthia C and Mario Tuscan N. Naz. 2006. Modeling ...

Almost 50 percent of the households and 64 percent of the business establishments
were aware of municipal and barangay ordinances on solid waste management.
Responses in a Likert scale on EKAP showed that majority of the respondents
agree and strongly agree on the following:
Table 8: Environmental Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions (EKAP) of the Respondents
Statement Households Business
a. Our barangay is getting congested. 99% 95%
b. Our barangay does not have any space that will serve as a
garbage dumpsite.
80% 87%
c. Open dumping and burning are rampant in our barangay. 76% 89%
d. Proper garbage collection will make our environment
healthier.
99% 99%
e. Waste segregation will help reduce the volume of waste in
our community.
99% 99%
f. Segregation of waste is easy to do. This implies that many of
the respondents are already practicing waste segregation.
99% 95%
g. Waste management begins in our household. 98%
h. My business establishment needs to improve its SWM 96%
i. Our barangay should have its own solid waste management 99% 99%
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plan, program, budget and ordinance.
j. The municipal government needs to enact a new ordinance on
solid waste management and allot more budget for this.
96% 99%
In the three Tuba barangays, each household can generate PhP 21 (USD 0.40) to
PhP 69 (USD 1.29) per month from the sales of recyclables. Each business
establishment can earn PhP 33 (USD 0.63) per month from the sales of recyclables.
Hence, the sales of recyclables will reduce the amount of waste to be brought to the
disposal site and at the same time enable Tuba people to earn income which they could
use to pay their garbage fees.
4.2 Reactions to Garbage Fees
Eighty-one percent of the households and business establishments agree and
strongly agree that garbage fees should be collected. Forty-nine percent of the
households and 67 percent of the business establishments agree and strongly agree that
those who produce more waste should pay more garbage fees. About 55 percent of the
households and business establishments disagree and strongly disagree that those with
higher incomes and more assets should pay more garbage fees. The common reason for
this is that they want the fees to be uniform.
4.3 Acceptance of the Contingent Valuation Scenario (Choice Sets)
Ninety three percent of the households and 88 percent of the business
establishments believe that the Tuba municipal government will be able to implement
the ECOSWAM service within three years after the survey. Eighty percent of the
households and 88 percent of the business establishments agree that a garbage user fee
is a good way to finance the ECOSWAM service. Most of the households said that they
could reduce their expenditures for recreation in order to pay their garbage fees. The
business establishments said that if they have a fixed budget every month and they are
to pay a garbage user fee, they would reduce their expenses on (1) traveling,
transportation and gasoline costs (2) electricity and water bills and (3) savings.