Coastal Community Participation in Reducing Litter at the Chao Phraya River Estuary, Samut Prakan Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study the waste-problem awareness of the Chao Phraya River estuary community and their participation in waste reduction, and to compare their waste-problem awareness including the waste-reduction participation to the other communities with different contexts. In this study, the sample group comprised of 400 people living in Muang District and Phra Samut Chedi District Samut Prakan Province. The data was obtained by stratified random  sampling in quantitative research methods. The results  showed that 1) people living in the community had a high level of waste-problem awareness (3.58±0.94), and a moderate level of waste-reduction participation (2.22±0.55). 2) the differences in sex, age, occupation,  part-time job, family status, number of household members and the length of time living in the community statistically significantly affect waste-problem awareness participation at 0.05 3) the differences in sex, age, occupation, part-time job, number of household members and the length of time living in the community statistically significantly affect waste-reduction participation at 0.05.