Poor solid waste management has increasingly taken a hegemonic position in urban policy discourse in Ghana. Often, the discourse centers on free market principles and inflexible waste management laws that promote privatization and deregulation. Recently however, source separation is dominating discussions on policy alternatives. This study investigates determinants of households' source separation behaviour and solid waste disposal options among residents of Ghana's 'Millennium City'- Accra using logit and multinomial logit regression models respectively. The logit regression estimates show that households' source separation behaviour is determined by gender, income, monetary incentives, attitude, compound house dummy, type of service provider and other household location variables. The multinomial logit estimates reveal that gender, age, age square, income, household size, employment, housing type, and attitude predicted household disposal options. We argue that to win the 'garbage war', source separation should be promoted by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly as this may enhance positive attitudes towards proper waste management.

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加纳千年城中家庭的源头分类行为和固体废物处理方案。

糟糕的固体废物管理在加纳的城市政策讨论中越来越占据霸权地位。通常，讨论集中在自由市场原则和不灵活的废物管理法律上，这些法律促进私有化和放松管制。然而，最近，源头分离主导了有关政策选择的讨论。本研究分别使用logit和多项式logit回归模型调查了加纳“千年之城”-阿克拉居民中家庭的源头分离行为和固体废物处置选择的决定因素。Logit回归估计表明，家庭的源头分离行为是由性别，收入，金钱激励，态度，复合房屋假人，服务提供者的类型以及其他家庭位置变量决定的。多项式对数估计显示了性别，年龄，年龄平方，收入，家庭规模，就业，住房类型和态度是预测的家庭处置选择。我们认为，要赢得“垃圾战争”，阿克拉大都会议会应促进源头分离，因为这可能会增强对适当废物管理的积极态度。