Acceptance of Innovative Briquette Systems for Producing High-efficiency Solid Fuels from Municipal Waste at Tha Wung Subdistrict Administrative

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the acceptance level of the innovative briquette system for producing high-efficiency solid fuels from municipal solid waste; and 2) to examine the factors affecting the acceptance of the innovative briquette system for producing high-efficiency solid fuels from municipal waste at Tha Wung Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Tha Wung District, Lopburi Province. The samples were 400 people in the community aged 18 years and over of Tha Wung Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Tha Wung District, Lopburi Province, with multi-stage random sampling. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Hypotheses were tested using Pearson's correlation coefficients and regression correlation values. The research results were found that factors for acceptance of innovative briquetting systems for producing high-efficiency solid fuels from municipal solid waste were at a high level. And when considering each aspect, it was found that it was at a high level in every aspect, respectively shown as follows: attitude towards use, followed by perception of ease of using the system, perceived usefulness of the system, and intention to use the system. Testing the hypothesis found that the perceived ease of using the system had an effect on the attitude to use the system (ß = 0.176). The perceived usefulness of the system had an effect on the attitude to use the system (ß = 0.716).  Perceived usefulness of the system had an effect on intention to use the system (ß = 0.343). The attitude to use the system had an effect on intention to use the system (ß = 0.503). Intention to use the system had an effect on satisfaction with using the briquette system for producing high-efficiency solid fuel from municipal waste (ß = .343).