Rural Women’s Practices for Getting Rid of Home Wastes in some Villages in Alexandria Governorate

The study aims at recognizing the practices of rural women in order to get rid of home wastes in some villages in Alexandria governorate. this is accomplished through investigating the characteristics of the rural women, their sources of knowledge and their skills in dealing with wastes on the one hand, and studying the kind of wastes, their harmful effect and their advantages if get recycled on the other hand. All data in this research is collected while considering the relation between the independent and related variables. The study embodies three villages annexed to administration 147, and it is applied haphazardly on a specimen of some married women in Marmora city. Interviews are held for these women who are asked to fill in a questionnaire. Percentage, duplication, Pearson correlation factor, analysis of line declination as statistical methods are also used.
 
Results show that the most important practices to get rid of home wastes are summed up as follows:
1-     Practices of rural women, who get rid of wastes by throwing them in the street, selling them, or reusing them, are average i.e. 47.6%.
2-     It represented types of waste in both cans, empties plastic and plastic bags they have accounted for 97.3%, 96.5%, 95.2% respectively, which calls for consideration in the development for methods of recycling of this waste.
3-     Reached the level of skills respondents in follow appropriate methods for the disposal of household and the level of rural practice of dis posing of household waste (less than 17 degrees) 70.1%.
4-     The results show that all of the variables of the skills of the respondents in the disposal of waste and teach the pair more influential on the dependent variable and the level of rural practice disposing of household waste.