Solid Waste Management Practices and Challenges in Rural and Urban Senior High Schools in Ashanti Region, Ghana

Table 6

Challenges to effective waste management.

Type of waste	Mean	Std. dev		value
Student attitude
Urban school	1.9319	1.02139	8.151	0.001
Rural school	4.7321	1.22031
Inadequate bin supply
Urban school	2.5319	1.26780	6.702	0.002
Rural school	4.8521	1.96781
Inadequate resources for waste management
Urban school	3.6596	1.62296	6.998	0.025
Rural school	4.6423	1.14142
Poor waste collection routine
Urban school	3.5212	1.27452	1.893	0.001
Rural school	1.8842	1.38351

Source: field data (2021). agree, , , and disagree. Significant at 5%.