Introduction
Humans produce wastes that impact the air people breathe, water, and land. For instance, more waste products are produced in project-based organisations such as building constructions. How the wastes are disposed of determines how much they can impact the environment. Open burning and waste disposal are the keys applied waste handling and final discarding systems, mostly observable in low-income nations. As a result, people must sustainably manage these wastes and devise plans for long-term waste management. Therefore, this study answers the research questions on how justifiable surplus management affects project-based companies, its importance, and the various ways project-based firms can manage their havoc.
Aims and Objectives
A research aim defines the study’s desire or ambition; it summarizes what the researcher expects to accomplish after the program. The scholar’s outcomes by collecting data are recognized as research objectives. In this study, the scholar’s aims include: to know the impacts of workable management of leftover in project-based corporations, including how it profits organisations and the various methods firms use to sustain the environment. Therefore, the objectives of this study include recognizing the positive impacts of sustainable management of waste, benefits, and the various strategies businesses use in adopting it.
Literature Review
Sustainable waste management is necessary for maintaining a healthy environment for animals and humans, releasing precious land from landfills, improving energy output, creating jobs, and reducing logistics and transport costs. Waste management tries to keep properties in use while restraining the number of wastes sent to incineration and landfills. In the modern rectilinear economy, waste accumulates even before goods are manufactured. A more comprehensive approach to sustainable waste management must emphasize the whole product lifecycle to decrease the negative economic and social repercussions of modern-era consumption. Maintainable waste management is at the heart of a circular economy (Das et al., 2019, p. 658). It is a formalized technique to economic progress that challenges the “take-make-waste” concept and tries to divorce development from limited resource utilisation.
The method of gathering, transporting, recycling, or disposing of different waste products and monitoring and managing them is called waste management. In this aspect, the concept of sustainable management of waste is crucial since it enhances all trash can be handled effectively rather than deposited in landfills. Sustainable waste management is the collection, movement, valuation, and disposition of various wastes without jeopardizing human and environmental health or subsequent groups, including all facets of waste management, from manufacturing to the final phase of treatment (Zorpas, A.A., 2020, p. 137088; Abdallah et al., 2020, p. 233). Individuals must take responsibility for long-term sustainability in the interests of future generations and the environment. An active and sustainable waste management structure must have feedback mechanisms, a procedure-oriented attitude, adaptability, and waste digression.
The globular economy’s essential principle is waste reprocessing management, which offers several benefits and opportunities for the environment, economy, and society. Assembling, classifying, treating, reusing when applicable, and supplying a source of power and supplies comprise sustainable waste management (Ferronato et al., 2019, p. 366; Iqbal, Naz, and Sattar, 2021, p. 2). Thus, creating jobs, enhancing waste management systems, reducing the natural impact of human activities, improving water and air. It also contributes to a higher quality of life by reducing food waste, lowering environmental costs, and eliminating human well-being.
How to Create a Successful Waste Management Plan
Individuals should consider implementing a sustainable waste management method instead of employing waste management as the last option to manage garbage effectively. The former demands them to think about the waste people produce and develop diverse ways to reuse it. The latter allows individuals to make deliberate and responsible decisions on how elements should flow at different phases of the production procedures to lessen waste. Waste disposal planning is a combination of processes that assist people in achieving their goals (Esmaeilian et al., 2018, p. 178; Kabirifar et al., 2020, p.121265). They should keep track of their plan at every stage of the process. Strategic planning enables people to realize long-term gains in local waste management by allowing them to engage in the ever-changing trash and recoverable materials markets. People must collaborate with various organizations and enterprises to achieve their objectives.
The Public-Private Partnerships for Service Delivery (PPPSD) program promotes businesses and local governments to form long-term, self-sustaining partnerships. This collaboration encourages governmental, business, and citizen stakeholders to work together more effectively. It also helps reduce the adverse effects of trash in low-income areas, leads to long-term improvements in reprocessing and waste sewage treatment, and increases the livelihood of enterprises and residents in both urban and rural locations (Pfisterer and van Tulder, 2021, p. 111). People should avoid garbage dumps as much as possible to minimize the risks associated with waste. To meet specific distraction goals, governmental institutions must work to comply with a variety of legal standards. They can figure out the actual recycling rate at each step of the reprocessing. People need to know how much material may be used to manufacture recyclable products.
Methodology
This study adopts quantitative approaches to obtain an answer to the research question. Quantitative methods emphasize quantifiable metrics and mathematical, arithmetical, or algebraic assessment of information learned through polls, surveys, and questionnaires and adjusting pre-existing statistical evidence using statistical formulas. Quantitative research purposes of gathering numerical information and simplifying it crossways persons or elucidates a specific existence (Khosla, 2021, p. 1935). Quantitative research aims to gain insights into the communal world through information collection (Rahman, 2020, para. 1). Investigators use these methods to examine conditions or occurrences that impact people. The research harvests objective signals that scholars can express successfully using figures and facts. The setting of the research will be a building under construction. The researcher will target ten electricians, plumbers, painters, scaffolders, steel erectors, decorators, laborers, and controllers like chargehands and supervisors.
The researcher will ensure gender equality among the ten participants and ensure 5 of the participants will be men, and five will be women. The scholar prefers a building under construction since the research topic focuses on sustainable waste management in a project-based organization. A building under construction is a project in progress until everything is accomplished and executed. Buildings often contain various waste products, including drywall, wood, masonry, concrete, metal, plastic, cardboard, and glass (Sharma et al., 2021, p. 050011). Hence, the setting will play a significant role in helping the researcher acquire sufficient data on how the participants manage their waste products, never polluting their surroundings. The project-based organizational setting will help the researcher comprehend how the participants benefit from the sustainable ways to manage their wastes (Spišáková, Mésároš, and Mandičák, 2021, p. 61). Considering that most of the waste products in buildings under construction do not decompose and can cause harm to live organisms around, the researcher will obtain a clear overview of how wastes from building construction sites are managed sustainably.
The individuals working in building constructions are best suited in this research since they are good listeners, creative, and hardworking, which are the significant characteristics participants should have to answer questionnaire queries accurately. The researcher will utilize the simple random sampling technique to obtain ten participants (Mahmud et al., 2020, p. 90). First, the researcher will randomly give all male workers pieces of paper written numbers ranging from 1-100. Afterward, the researcher will select the workers who received papers written numbers 1 to 5 as the population sample. Female workers will likewise receive a number in a 1 to 100 range, and the scholar will pick female workers with the papers written number 1 to 5. Simple random sampling will ensure each worker obtains an equal chance to participate in the research. The researcher will assign questionnaires to the participants and request them to answer the questions accurately since they will be used for study purposes.
How analysis will be done
Data analysis is the most crucial part of every study since it helps researchers answer their research questions. The researcher will summarize the data collected and use statistical analysis or the SPSS software to interpret the results. Statistical analysis will provide valuable data the researcher needs to acknowledge how sustainable waste management benefits or impacts project-based organizations (Pallant, 2020). SPSS denotes an inclusive statistical software with several statistical tests available as inbuilt features that help in a more accessible interpretation of data.
Activity Planning
Activity planning describes the researcher’s various steps to accomplish the research goal, possible changes, and utilizing available resources and chances to attain expected outcomes. In this research, activity planning plays an important role, such as guiding the researcher on the activities that will be performed to answer the question in research (Van-Horenbeke, and Peer, 2021, p. 106). The plan will break down the activities the researcher will perform in 15 weeks, and the time the researcher will allocate in each activity to ensure the project is accomplished on time. The researcher’s activity planning is as shown in figure 1 below:
Figure 1: Activity Plan
The researcher will take 15 weeks to accomplish the research and answer the research from the above activity plan. In the first week, the researcher will formulate the research question and explain how the research question relates to the research topic. In the second week, the researcher will analyze the aims and objectives of the research. The researcher will utilize the subsequent four weeks to explore the existing data related to the research and how various researchers discovered sustainable waste management impacts project-based organizations. The researcher will spend three weeks designing the research methodology, including analyzing the research setting and the significance of the setting, and the sampling strategy. Lastly, the researcher will analyze data for six weeks to obtain accurate responses to the research question.
Findings
Effective waste management tackles the more significant difficulties of line consumption in the community and gives immediate solutions to the various problems caused by waste. If an efficient waste management policy is not implemented, useable materials and substances are transported to landfills and incinerators for energy conversion. It is critical to recognize that waste emanates from different forms, including municipal waste electronic waste (which comprises computer parts) and radioactive wastes. Sustainable waste management is necessary for maintaining a healthy environment for animals and humans, releasing precious land from landfills, improving energy output, creating jobs, and reducing logistics and transport costs. By recycling and generating as little garbage as possible, sustainable waste management aims to conserve natural resources.
Limitations and Further Research
The confines of the research are those features of strategy or methodology that impact or influence the clarification of the answers from research. In this research, the scholar is limited towards conducting the research to a specific setting; project-based organizations. Hence, the researcher is limited to exploring how other organisations are impacted by sustainability measures to protect the environment. Therefore, further research should be done on how sustainable management of waste impacts organizations other than project-based firms.
Conclusions and Recommendations
The circular economy’s key concept of sustainable waste management provides numerous opportunities. The real benefit of recycling and reusing is that it has a lower environmental impact, boosts water and air quality, and lowers greenhouse emissions. Furthermore, limiting food waste reduces the high environmental costs of creating additional food. Gathering, sorting, cleaning, reusing, and, when correctly enabled, giving a source of power and resources are all part of sustainable solid waste management. Composting not only increases efficiency but also keeps materials out of landfills and incinerators, as well as provides raw materials in new products. Project-based organizations should consider more bin bags for accumulating recyclables such as glass, paper, plastics, among other things, and then reusing them, which can play vital roles in managing project-based institutions. Businesses should keep track of their plan at every stage of the process. Strategic planning enables people to realize long-term gains in local waste management by allowing them to engage in the ever-changing trash and recoverable materials markets. People must collaborate with various organizations and enterprises to achieve their objectives.
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