The sense of cleanliness was using an easily understood question:How do you feel about the cleanliness of your locality. The responses were given on a 5 point scale as follows: (1) I feel the surrounding are very dirty and messy (2) I feel dirty in the surroundings (3) I feel neither clean nor dirty in the locality (4) It is clean in the surroundings (5) I feel very clean in the surroundings.The level of sustainable solid waste management practices was measured by the proportion of households that actively practiced sustainable solid waste management ( sustainable solid waste management Households) per 1000 population. The assumption of this measure was that sustainable solid waste management households where enthusiastically practicing and actively promoting sustainable solid waste management in their locality. Their opinions about solid waste management
done by waste management authorities and solid waste
management activists were acquired separately.