3RD YEAR MARINE ENGINEERING STUDENTS OF SAINT JOSEPH INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY— LEVEL OF AWARENESS AND PRACTICES ON SOLID WASTE

MANAGEMENT.

In partial fulfilment of the requirements

In Research

DACLAN, Queen Valerie

GOLORAN, Carlo Jay

GOLORAN, Joseph Lenin

MONGADO, Gian

SERAGON, Brayl

VUELBAN, Prince Kyle

 CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

Introduction

Environmental protection is one of the vital roles of a seafarer, Aside from taking part on

the worldwide economy seafarers also need to prioritize the safety of the environment along the

way. The topic of environmental protection has attained highest importance in maritime industry

globally. This study aims to determine the level of awareness of the 3rd year marine engineering

students of Saint Joseph Institute Of Technology with regards with waste management.

Determining factors that would affect the cadets’ awareness in waste management would

help the researchers find ways on how to address the issue. The trouble of students’ practice to

solid waste management varies greatly top their awareness. There are programs that the school

has implemented but students tend to forget their responsibilities in an unidentified reason. As an

aspiring seafarer, cadets need to adopt and practice waste management until it became a habit, so

the researchers aim to conduct a study regarding to this problem. A proper waste management is

needed to ensure the protection prior to the health, lifestyle of the students, and raise students

awareness of environment protection before going on board. To achieve effective and sustainable

implementation of the proper waste management practices, awareness with participation to the

key to be involved in the Solid Waste Management Program of an institution.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

The study will be conducted to investigate the students’ level of Awareness and Practices

of Solid Waste Management in Prosperidad National High School- Senior High School

Department. This chapter includes the study and researches written by reliable authors related to

the study conducted:

Related Studies

Foreign

Life cycle assessment of ship-generated waste management of Luka Koper

Stefano Zuin, Elvis Belac, Boris Marzi

Waste management 29 (12), 3036-3046, 2009

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2009.06.025

Sea ports and the related maritime activities (e.g. shipping, shipbuilding, etc.) are one of the main

driver of Europe’s growth, jobs, competitiveness and prosperity. The continuously growth of

shipping sectors has however introduced some environmental concerns, particularly with respect

to ship-generated waste management. The port of Koper, one of the major ports on the northern

Adriatic Coast, is the focus of this study. In this paper, a life cycle assessment was performed to

identify and quantify the environmental impacts caused by the ship-generated waste management

of port of Koper. Carcinogens substance (e.g. dioxins) and inorganic emissions, especially heavy

metals, resulted to be the most critical environmental issues, while the fossil fuels consumption is

reduced by recovery of ship-generated oils. Moreover, the final treatment of ship waste was

found to be critical phase of the management, and the landfill have a significant contribute to the
overall environmental load. These results can be useful in the identification of the best practices

and in the implementation of waste management plans in ports.

Management of ship-generated food waste and sewage on the Baltic Sea: A review

Céline Vaneeckhaute, Ali Fazli

Waste Management 102, 12-20, 2020

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2019.10.030

The combination of increased maritime transportation and the sensitivity of the Baltic Sea makes

it necessary to establish efficient, eco-friendly and profitable ship-generated waste management

strategies. This study aims to identify best management practices for ship-generated nutrient-rich

organic wastes, i.e. food waste and sewage, on the Baltic Sea. Ship-generated waste quantities

and characteristics, maritime waste regulations, and disposal methods are reviewed and

discussed according to the available literature for the Ports of Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn and

Copenhagen Malmö, which are the most important and busiest ports on the Baltic Sea. Sorting

onboard and separation of food waste from other waste sources such as sewage and grey water is

a suitable solution that facilitates further treatment. However, this procedure demands special

facilities and sufficient storage space. Aforementioned food waste can be delivered to port

reception facilities (PRFs) and used to produce biogas at land. However, currently only food

waste from ships operating in the EU may be used as input for biogas production, not

international food waste. Grinding of food waste and discharge into the sea is still common

practice. In addition, shipping companies can choose buffet type restaurants in order to reduce

food waste generation. Grey wastewater is generally discharged into the sea, whereas sewage

needs to be treated on board before discharge or delivered to PRFs for treatment. New MARPOL

regulations for passenger ships on the Baltic Sea require advanced treatment of pollutant
nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus, before sewage discharge in order to combat eutrophication of

this sensitive area.

C.D. Licy1 et al, (2013) conducted a related study about the Awareness, Attitude and Practice of

School Students towards Household Waste Management. Waste Management at any means have

been introduced in schools and even in homes. It is aimed by the researchers to determine

significant differences between waste management awareness and practice of students. The study

reveals the necessity of giving mass awareness to the impact of waste disposal practices from the

beginning of school education. Committed environmental education will inculcate a proper and

appropriate environmental culture in the students.

Adeolu A.T1 et, al. (2014) conducted a study on the Assessment of Secondary School Students’

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Waste Management in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

This studies cited by the researchers, have shown that the level of knowledge, attitude and

practice of waste management was relatively moderate. These researches analyze the level of

enforcement of Solid waste management policies and sanitation laws and its Implication to

Secondary School Students’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Waste Management in a

Nigerian high school.

Niekerk (2014) conducted a case study of school children in Mpumalanga, South Africa about

the Waste management behavior. This is related to the researchers study as it focus on waste

management awareness, knowledge and practices of school students only differ on the

respondents because this study has a wider respondents than the researchers study.
Local

Awareness and Practices on Solid Waste Management among College Students in

Mindanao State University Maigo School of Arts and Trades

Margarita C. Paghasian (2017)

https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/icet-17/25883492

conducted a study about the Awareness and Practices on Solid Waste Management among

College Students in Mindanao State University Maigo School of Arts and Trades, this study is

related to the researchers study because this focuses on the student’s knowledge and background

in dealing with solid waste management but differ because it focuses on college students.
Theoretical Framework

This study used the Theory of Reasoned Action which was developed by Martin Fishbein

and Icek Ajzen as an improvement over Information Integration theory (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980;

Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975).

The theory is based on the belief that each people’s intention is explicitly concerned with

their behavior. However, this theory also recognizes that there are situations (or factors) that

limit the influence of attitude on behavior. If a person want to segregate waste but cannot find

available trash bins, the availability of trash bins will prevent our attitude from causing us to

segregate the wastes. Reasoned Action uses two elements, attitudes and norms (or the

expectations of other people), to predict behavioral intent. That is, whenever our attitudes lead us

to do one thing but the relevant norms suggest we should do something else, both factors

influence our behavioral intent. If a student’s attitude wants to maintain the cleanliness of

classroom environment, and his classmates told him to let it be messy because it’s not their

cargo, but the utility worker’s. He would be stuck on two different choices, to behave in his own

intentions or the intention influenced by his classmates.

The attitude is dependent on the corresponding situations that affects people’s

intention. Therefore, Reasoned Action predicts behavioral intention, a compromise between

stopping at attitude predictions and actually predicting behavior. Because it separates behavioral

intention from behavior, Reasoned Action also discusses the factors that limit the influence of

attitudes (or behavioral intention) on behavior.

Conceptual Framework

Intentions on solid waste management is what the students have in order to conduct it in a

proper practice. This affects their behavior and potentials in considering waste management.

However, these intentions may be affected by different situations to perform, or not

perform the waste management.

SWM Practices of cadets

SWM Awareness
Segregation
of cadets in School
• Reduce
& in Homes
• Reuse

• Recycle

• Disposal

Impact to the cadets as marine

engineering students.

This concept is related to behavior/ practices towards solid waste management because it

measure how the students practice the solid waste management. And how the students really

understand what the purpose of knowing the awareness and practices towards solid waste
management is, and why it is one of the best behavior that the students should learn and possess

in school, and in their homes.

Statement of the Problem

The objective of this study was to find the level of awareness and practices on solid waste

management among 3rd year Marine Engineering cadets of SJIT-MET. Specifically, it aimed to

achieve the following:

1. To identify the level of awareness on solid waste management of 3rd year Marine

Engineering cadets of SJIT-MET;

2. To determine their practices on solid waste management in terms of segregation, reduce,

reuse, recycle and disposal;

3. To investigate the significant relationship between the awareness of the 3rd year college

students and their practices on solid waste management.

4. To analyze the impact of their level of awareness in solid waste management as a marine

engineering student.

Hypothesis of the study

1. If cadets have access to information about solid waste management, they will practice

waste management properly.

2. Cadets behavior affects their interest in solid waste management.

3. There is no significant relationship between the level of awareness of the 3rd year college

students and their practices on solid waste management.

4. There is no significant relationship between the cadets’ awareness in solid waste

management as a marine engineering student.

Significance of the Study

The result of this study will be useful improvement of the following sectors:

Cadets. this study could be a means by which their awareness on solid waste management would

be practiced responsibly. To the point that, they will be able to get used how to segregate the

waste properly.

Teachers. would also benefit from the improved and more favorable awareness of solid waste

management. This would help them to have cleaner and greener teaching environment. They

could expect better graduates who are responsible in terms of solid waste management.

School Administrators. the outcome of this study would give them data about the level of

awareness and practices on solid waste management. This study can be a basis on what to

improve and facilitate about the management of solid waste.

Definition of terms

The following terms are used in this research. In order to give clarity, the researchers

made it operationally and conceptually defined:

Awareness. It refers to the students’ knowledge on proper waste management.

Behavior. This is how the respondents act regarding the solid waste management.

Solid waste. Means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater

treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded

material, resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from

community activities.
 Waste Segregation. Dividing waste into dry and wet. Dry waste includes wood and

related products, metals and glass. Wet waste typically refers to organic waste usually generated

by eating establishments and are heavy in weight due to dampness.

Reuse. To use again especially in a different way or after reclaiming or reprocessing the

need to reuse scarce resources reuse packing material as insulation.

Reduce. The first and most effective component of the waste hierarchy is reducing the

waste created.

Recycle. Is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The

recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept.

Cadet. Referring to 3rd year students of SMET

Seafarer. The first and most effective component of the waste hierarchy is reducing the

waste created.

Marine engineering.  Is a branch of engineering that deals with the construction as well

as the operation of mechanical equipment of seagoing craft, docks, and harbor installations.

SJIT-MET. Saint Joseph Institute of technology- Maritime education and Training.