Household Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Management Services: Using Contingent… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.83598

individual values expressed through willingness to pay. Table 5 the logit results for the variables that are significantly related to the probability of providing positive WTP values. While sex, educational level, family size, present solid waste management system is not satisfied, and age, educational level and maximum willingness to pay are negative. The study had significant found that the sex is important significant factor for improved solid waste management services in the study area. The sex and willingness to pay services 10 percent level of significance.

This study had found that the age and willingness to pay no significant effect on the amount of willingness to pay for improved solid waste management services. WTP and educational is also no quite significant and the maximum amount of willingness to pay for improved solid waste management services are negative responses represent from respondents in the study area. Household income and willingness to pay for solid waste management services in important significant factor [2] this study had found that the income is insignificant for improved solid waste management services. As seen in Table 4 low income people are interesting more willing to pay but it quite significant 74 respondent out of 150 are willing to pay for improved solid waste management services. The current solid waste management system is unsatisfactory in urban Indian in general and semi-urban in particular. This study had found that the 70.7 percent of the respondent are felt current solid waste management system is satisfied. Indian municipalities have overall responsibility for solid waste management their cities or local areas but most of the cities and semi-urban areas currently unable to fulfill their duty to ensure environmentally sound and sustainable ways of dealing with waste generation, collection, transport, treatment, and disposal. The failure of municipal solid waste


#### Table 4.

Willingness to pay person and socio economic characteristics of sample household.


Source: Author's calculation, \* represent 10% level of significance. Log Likelihood 89.437, Number of observation 150.

Chi-square LR statistics 35.628, Significance 0.002.

#### Table 5.

Logit model estimation of willingness to pay for improved solid waste management services.


#### Table 6.

Respondent willing to pay for solid waste management services.

management (MSWM) can result in serious health problems and environmental degradation.

Table 6 represents the respondent willing to pay for solid waste management services 96% of the respondents are willingness to pay but very less amount respectively only 2% of the respondents are INR Rs 50 (\$1), 43% of the respondents are INR 100 (\$2) and 50.7% of the respondents are more than INR 100 (\$2) for improved solid waste management services.
