Abstrakt
The increasing pressure of the European Union on diverting municipal waste from landfills requires an active role of households and commands a radical change in their behaviour. Knowledge of behavioral patterns enables an effective design of municipal waste management systems.
Based on several factors influencing environmental behaviour, this paper aims at analysing differences in municipal waste generation among Czech municipalities, using socio-demographic factors. A set of twelve characteristics for 5,445 Czech municipalities was investigated.
Using ordinary least squares regression, we developed a model with eight indicators describing the household size, gender, completed education level and diverse housing characteristics. Even though the model explains only 5.1% of waste generation variability among Czech municipalities, it is statistically significant.
Other factors such as age or population density do not improve the model significantly. The resulting model will be used as a basis for a further spatial analysis.