Correlation and Exploratory Factor Analysis on Awareness of Solid Waste Management in Malaysia

Zulkipli, Faridah; Jamian, Nurul Husna

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v11-i10/11492

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“…Solid waste management was considered as one of the complex and dynamics problems worldwide due to rapid population, changing lifestyle, urbanization process towards sustainable development and uncontrollable increment in solid waste generation. The raising number of municipal solid waste management in Malaysia was one of the greatest environmental problems that need to be concerned and solved (Zulkipli & Jamian, 2021;Tang et al, 2021). In addition, solid waste management is a global issue that impacts climate change and environmental sustainability.…”

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Students' Awareness on Solid Waste Management and Environmental Care: A Case Study at UiTM Negeri Sembilan Branch, Seremban Campus

Zulkipli,

Noor Akbar,

Salleh

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

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Solid waste management is one of the crucial environmental issues in Malaysia whereby it contributes to the sustainable development for current and future generation. However, a lack of awareness among community in achieving sustainability in solid is relatively low. Information related to this environmental issue needs to be shared among the community, such as students, in order to educate them and create a conducive environment. Thus, this study is conducted to identify the relationship between knowledge, practice, attitude, and perception against awareness and to find the significant factors that contributes on students' awareness on solid waste management (SWM) and environmental care (EC) at UiTM Negeri Sembilan Branch, Seremban Campus. A set of questionnaires is distributed among the students from the College of Computing, Informatics and Media, Faculty of Sport Science and Recreation and Faculty of Administrative and Policy Studies using an online platform such as WhatsApp and Telegram. A total of 355 respondents participated in this study. The questionnaire is divided into two parts, which are Part A for respondents' demography and Part B for student's awareness on solid waste management and environmental care. The results obtained in Part A are analyzed using descriptive statistics, while the results obtained in Part B are analyzed using Multiple Linear Regression. The overall results obtained in this study show that students' knowledge, practice, attitude and perception have positive relationship towards students' awareness of solid waste management and environmental care.

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