Modeling on waste group recovery considering location factor of regional community

Abstract

Akashi city in Japan is tackling in solid waste reduction and recycling with having long-term goal towards realizing a sound society of material recycling, therefore the number of group recovery activities and the amount of recovered MSW are now increasing. If the solid waste recycling by community is encouraged by the local government is the more increase of recycling ratio may be expected. In this study, we aimed to identify the factors which influence on the recycling activity through modeling the amount of group recovery by expressing social and regional factors. Concretely, data of group recovery and related factors are collected, GIS map of the region, group, and stores are created, and after that, modeling of the amount of group recovery was concluded. In analysis, association of the age factor, the status of household, and the number of cooperative volunteer are considered.