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Item Healthcare waste characteristics and management in Kumasi, Ghana(Elsevier, 2021-05) Oduro-Kwarteng, Sampson; Addai, Rainsford; Essandoh, HelenThe healthcare waste management in developing countries has shortfalls compared with international best practices. The main purpose of this study was to assess the generation rate, composition and practices of healthcare waste management (HWM) in Kumasi, Ghana. Healthcare waste samples were collected from four hospitals and three healthcare centres for waste generation, composition and bulk density analyses. The average waste generation rates of the hospitals ranged from 0.76 to 2.92 kg/bed-day and that of the community health centres ranged from 0.012 to 0.08 kg/patient-day. The compositions of the general healthcare and hazardous healthcare waste were 49.65% and 50.35% respectively. The hazardous healthcare waste far exceeded the World Health Organization threshold of within 10 – 25% as a result of inadequate segregation. The facilities had no specific HWM framework and did not comply with best practices. The lack of National regulatory framework for HWM may compromise the prevention of disease transmission.Item Incentives for improving municipal solid waste source separation behaviour: the case of Tamale Metropolis, Ghana.(Springer Link, 2021-05) Asare, Wilhemina; Oduro-Kwarteng, Sampson; Donkor, EmmanuelSource separation is a key step to increase waste diversion and can promote recycling by providing the needed raw materials. This study analyzed solid waste separation activities and incentive options through a survey conducted in households in four different solid waste management service zones. The study was conducted to evaluate preferences for solid waste separation activities and incentives in the service zones to identify options that can promote positive solid waste separation behaviours among households to aid the diversion of reusable and recyclable materials from the landfill. Multivariate probit analysis was conducted on proposed incentive choices by households which highlighted the key incentive options that can be used to improve household waste separation behaviour for effective solid waste separation at the households. The result of the study indicates that the majority of the respondents prefer the provision of free bins as an incentive to voluntarily participate in waste separation programmes. Cash fines were discovered as a sanction to coerce householders to comply with mandatory solid waste separation in the service zones. The study established that some of the proposed incentives may have complementary roles if used as motivation in a recycling scheme while others may serve as substitutes in supporting waste separation or recycling behaviour in the service zones. The results again indicate that incentives are significant predictors of solid waste separation behaviour in the service zones, however, its effects on waste separation behaviour depends on the incentive used and the service zone.