The Carbon Footprint Emissions of Municipal Waste by Sources: Case Study of Trakanpuetpon Municipality, Ubon Ratchathani Province
Keywords:
waste, carbon footprint, communityAbstract
The objectives of this research were to: (1) Study the amount and type of municipal waste generated by each source and (2) Study the carbon footprint of them. Sampling was obtained from offices, shops, houses, markets, temples and schools from 9 municipalities (40 sampling) was conducted. Then, the carbon footprint formula, frequency, percent and Pearson correlation were statistically analyzed. The result has shown that (1) the amount municipal waste is 164.27 kg/day while the offices generate 32.8 kg/day, which is the most waste, and then followed by shops, houses, markets, temples and schools were shown as having waste at 32.67, 30.51, 29.12, 27.11 and 12.06 kg/day, respectively. (2) the amount of carbon footprint by source was 273.856 KgCO2eq/day, while the most waste generated were by shops with 67.7280 KgCO2eq/day and then markets, temples, offices, houses and schools as 65.6864, 62.0673, 58.0007, 53.9083 and 20.3736 KgCO2eq/day, respectively.
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