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. 2023 Nov 28;9(12):e22446. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22446

Table 4.

Waste generation rate in the different ward categories in kg per capita and day.

Waste generation rate [kg/(cap‧d)]
Category 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Average SD
Ward 9 11 21 24 17 2 16 1 5
Low 0.340 0.330 0.310 0.320 0.330 0.300 0.320 0.270 0.290 0.312 0.021
Lower Middle 0.390 0.400 0.390 0.380 0.440 0.350 0.380 0.330 0.360 0.380 0.030
Middle 0.550 0.530 0.490 0.450 0.520 0.430 0.450 0.390 0.410 0.469 0.053
Higher Middle 0.670 0.630 0.550 0.510 0.680 0.520 0.570 0.490 0.500 0.569 0.070
High 0.740 0.710 0.690 0.600 0.760 0.640 0.620 0.560 0.550 0.652 0.072
Averagea 0.540 0.511 0.482 0.464 0.536 0.425 0.490 0.375 0.397 0.469 0.056
SD 0.148 0.130 0.116 0.093 0.148 0.110 0.106 0.092 0.140 0.120
a

Geometric mean based on income distribution.