Relationship between Responsibility and Metal Waste Separation at Source among Women in Shiraz and Yasouj

Increasing production of household waste has generated many challenges particularly in the developing countries. A basic strategy to reduce this problem is household waste separation at source but it has not been developed in Iran. Accordingly, the main purpose of this research is to study the relationship between responsibility and metal waste separation at source. The population is married women in Shiraz and Yasouj that 562 people were selected using random multistage sampling method. Research instrument to assess metal waste separation at source is a researcher-made questionnaire that has been validated using content validity and the reliability has been measured by means of kuder-Richardson coefficient. The research instrument for measuring the responsibility is Gough’s (1984) responsibility questionnaire. Based on the descriptive findings, rate of metal waste separation at source is at the average level among women in Shiraz and Yasouj. Furthermore, mean metal waste separations at source on a range of zero to six is 3.4 and mean responsibility on a range of zero to 42 is 26.4.Based on the analytical findings, responsibility has a positive significant relationship with metal waste separation at source and is able to explain 0.29 of the variance. The results also show that, among demographic variables there is only relationship between occupational situation and metal waste separation at source.