Urban Solid Waste Management in Dili Community

Abstract

Urban solid waste is one of the big issues in Dili community, such as poor management performed by state and lack of understanding by communities on solid waste deposits. Therefore, this study aims to gather and describe the relations between the existed waste management system and communities understanding and satisfaction with adopted system by the Ministry of State Administration. Furthermore, to raise public’s awareness on solid waste impacts for urban communities. To mitigate, we introduce an adequate, integrated and sustainable system to reduce solid waste problems in urban communities. In our methodology, we distributed questionnaires for 431 respondents of four administrative posts within Dili municipality, resulting 72% of communities are agreed and satisfied with the current government system on solid waste management in Dili community. The generalized way to manage solid waste is transported to public open dump and burning. Related to the waste impacts, health and environment are urgently needed to solve in Dili community. The most of communities are with irresponsible behavior and lack of participation in solid waste management, recycling and reutilization. 49% of communities didn’t understood the separation or recycling of solid waste and 89.8% were agree and available to pay the 3R’s applied system to change communities’ behavior on solid waste management. Further technical solution, we propose Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to predict solid waste generation in urban areas in our future works.