Local Disposal and Coastal Community Behavior towards Waste Management in Ambon City, Indonesia

Irene Sohilait, Maxmilyand Leiwakabessy

2018

Abstract

Pollution of plastic and other waste substances has become a pivotal issue for the future of sustainable marine biology ecosystem. It is widely recognized by the global society that most of the marine debris are contributed by waste production on mainland. Moreover, recent studies have shown that mismanagement of waste and density of coastal population are two main factors related to the waste input from land to ocean. This study is aimed to observe the quantity of total waste production in Ambon City and to analyze the behavior of the society on managing their disposal. Data of waste production was collected from January to July 2018 at Integrated Waste Management Center (IPST), the final disposal of Ambon City and an online questionnaire was spread to understand people’s behavior towards waste management. The result showed that during the first half of the year, average waste produced by Ambonese community were the lowest on February and highest on April, 157.20 ton and 198.23 ton, respectively. The survey found that most of people in Ambon (70.90% of respondent) disposed their garbage into temporary dump provided by local government, while others personally manage the waste through various methods, such as burned, buried in soil, or thrown into river and coastal area. Furthermore, the result also described that around 95.5% of the respondents claimed to understand the concept of organic and non-organic waste. However, 13.7% of the people were failed to distinguish the organic waste from non-organic waste. Therefore, few actions involving community, public and private sectors need to be conducted in order to improve the waste management in Ambon City, especially to prevent increasing amount of waste flow from the mainland into ocean.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sohilait I. and Leiwakabessy M. (2018). Local Disposal and Coastal Community Behavior towards Waste Management in Ambon City, Indonesia.In Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Ocean and Coastal Engineering, Environmental and Natural Disaster Management - Volume 1: ISOCEEN, ISBN 978-989-758-455-8, pages 16-20. DOI: 10.5220/0008372900160020

in Bibtex Style

@conference{isoceen18,
author={Irene Sohilait and Maxmilyand Leiwakabessy},
title={Local Disposal and Coastal Community Behavior towards Waste Management in Ambon City, Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Ocean and Coastal Engineering, Environmental and Natural Disaster Management - Volume 1: ISOCEEN,},
year={2018},
pages={16-20},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008372900160020},
isbn={978-989-758-455-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Ocean and Coastal Engineering, Environmental and Natural Disaster Management - Volume 1: ISOCEEN,
TI - Local Disposal and Coastal Community Behavior towards Waste Management in Ambon City, Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-455-8
AU - Sohilait I.
AU - Leiwakabessy M.
PY - 2018
SP - 16
EP - 20
DO - 10.5220/0008372900160020