Factors affecting waste generation and segregation behaviour. An analysis using data from the educated communities in the Western and the North-Western provinces of Sri Lanka
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Keywords
Waste management; waste segregation at source; waste generation; households; recycling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
- Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
- Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
- Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2022-10-17 (Environmental Economics)
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