Exploring Factors That Influence Residents' Intention Towards Separation Of Solid Waste At Source In Malacca

Mohd Radzi, Nor Ain (2016) Exploring Factors That Influence Residents' Intention Towards Separation Of Solid Waste At Source In Malacca. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This research focuses on the factors that influence resident’s intention towards separation of solid waste at source in Malacca. Attitude, environmental education and knowledge and information received are three factors that have a potential to influence resident’s intention. Attitude factor is attitude towards the behavior refers to the evaluation, positive or negative, the individuals have on the behavior, it reflects their awareness on the outcome of that behavior and how they evaluate this outcome. Environmental education is another factor that can be used to encourage intention towards separate of solid waste among residents. Education is very efficient to build awareness towards environmental. Environmental education emphasizes the teaching of the holistic nature of the environment through interdisciplinary and problem- solving approaches. Knowledge and information received can be describe that citizens who are better informed on how to recycle are more likely to participate than others; more and better information can make separation easier and reduce the perception of difficulty. Therefore, questionnaire is conducted in order to collect the data. The questionnaire answered by 134 respondents those consisted residential in Telok Mas region. All data and information gathered through questionnaire were considered as primary data because this research is full based on questionnaire. Sometimes, primary data will become the most trusted data and vice versa. The feedback from respondent will determine whether which the best factor is reasonable to influence residents and finally the research objective and research question can be achieved.

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