Abdulredha, MAA, Al Khaddar, RM, Jordan, D, Al-Attabi, AW and Alzeyadi, A (2017) Public participation in solid waste management during mega festivals: A pilot study. In: WCST World Congress on Sustainable Technologies Proceedings 2017 . pp. 38-41. (World Congress on Sustainable Technologies, 11 December 2017 - 14 December 2017, Cambridge).

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Abstract

Large festivals with over 50,000 participants have become a customary but hardly investigated practice in many countries across the world. Festivals management is increasingly being complicated because of their negative consequences such as solid waste accumulation and the destruction to the hosting city attractions. Recycling is an important process to reduce the negative consequences of the waste which public plays an extremely important role regarding its success. Therefore, this study is dedicated to explore campers’ environmental awareness and willingness to participate in the solid waste source separation during mega festivals in Kerbala city, Iraq. The outcome of a structured questionnaire survey completed by 20 camps’ managers during one mega festival showed low environmental awareness among the participants. On the other hand, the majority of the campers were willing to separate their wastes during mega festivals. These results can be invested in establishing a base for implementing a recycling scheme during such festivals.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Divisions:	Civil Engineering & Built Environment Civil Engineering (merged with Built Env 10 Aug 20) Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19)
Publisher:	Infonomics Society
Date Deposited:	21 Jun 2018 08:39
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2022 15:16
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/8875

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