Abstract
One of the most visible impacts of hotels on the environment is waste. Waste generated by hotels tends to have adverse impacts on the environment. There are, therefore, concerns that the proliferation of small hotels in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, could have adverse impacts on the environment since small hotels have been found to take little action to address their environmental impacts. This paper examines the waste management practices of small hotels in Accra, based on the Waste Management Hierarchy (WMH) model. A survey of 260 managers of small hotels in various parts of Accra was undertaken, employing the simple random sampling method. Results of the study indicate that waste management practices of hotels did not strictly adhere to the WMH model. Waste disposal, prevention and reduction practices were the most frequently undertaken whilst practices relating to reuse, recycling and recovery were less frequently undertaken. It is recommended that the hotels should employ the sufficiency approach by positively influencing the attitudes of employees and guests toward waste prevention and reduction.
Keywords
small hotel, waste, Accra, landfill, recycle
Chinese Abstract
阿克拉小型酒店的废弃物管理实践： 废弃物管理层次模型的应用
酒店对环境最明显的影响之一是废弃物。酒店产生的废弃物对环境造成负面影响。因此，有观点担忧加纳首都阿克拉小酒店的盛行恐将破坏环境，因为小酒店通常很少采取措施以应对环境影响问题。本文基于废弃物管理层次模型，研究阿克拉小型酒店的废弃物管理实践。通过简单随机抽样法，本研究对阿克拉各地区的小型酒店中的260位经理进行了调查。研究结果发现这些酒店的废弃物管理实践并未严格遵守废弃物管理层次模型。废物处理、预防和减少是最常见的措施，而再利用、回收、及修复则较少被采纳。建议酒店通过积极影响员工和顾客对于预防和减少废弃物的态度，完成对废弃物的充分处理。
小型酒店、废弃物、阿克拉、堆填区、回收
DOI
10.5038/2640-6489.5.1.1081
Recommended Citation
Mensah, I. (2020). Waste management practices of small hotels in Accra: An application of the waste management hierarchy model. Journal of Global Business Insights, 5(1), 33-46. https://www.doi.org/10.5038/2640-6489.5.1.1081
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
