Evaluation of Citizen Participation Scale in Household Waste Management, (Case Study: City of Mashhad)

At the present time, citizen participation in municipal affairs has been unable to have any ostentation due to poor management laws and lack of people's information about managing the cities affairs. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is the identification of citizen participation scale in household waste management. Along implementation of this purpose, the writers took advantage of descriptive and analytic methods and the necessary data were scrounged through attributive and field study methods. Socio-statistics in this study is the population of Mashhad in 2003. Among which a samples of 322 household administrators were randomly chosen based on Cochrane formula and the questionnaires were distributed with respect to the number of households in the senary regions Test results of this research revealed that there is a positive and meaningful relation between the extent of citizen participation in household waste management and the social-economic basement of those citizens Also, the Kruskal-Wallis’s statistical test results showed significant differences among different urban areas in respect to the extent of citizen participation in household waste management Whereas, the highest extent of citizen participation in all parameters belongs to area 2 of region 1 and the lowest citizen participation rate belongs to area 2 of region 5. The test results of effective parameters detection demonstrated that parameters such as satisfaction, trust, awareness and fixation to place causes the difference between the areas of the two regions with other areas in respect to participation rate. The conclusion also demonstrated that there is a significant relationship among variables such as job, education level, household expenses, sexuality and the type of ownership with participation rate in household wastes management. Also, no significant relation was detected among age groups in citizen participation rate in household waste management using spearman’s test.