Abstract
We have conducted a survey in three low-income settlements in Mumbai, India in order to make the present state of the solid waste management, dwellers' cognition and factors which influence the choice of waste disposal by dwellers clear. In this paper, the results show that (1) dwellers do not consider the waste as more serious matter than that of water, toilet and drainage, (2) “distance to container” and “cognition of health risk” are important factors, but “outgo”, “education”, “resident period” and “fear of eviction” are not significant. And it is also evaluated that the value which dwellers take cognizance of the health risk is equivalent to about 100m as a distance measure.
