Household Food Waste: Exploring the Modern Throw-away Culture in Raub, Pahang, Malaysia

Abstract

Food waste has formidable harmful consequences for food security, the environment, the economy, and biodiversity loss, making it a worldwide issue that demands immediate action. Reducing the amount of food waste has been deemed critical in Malaysia, thus, this study investigates the factors related to household food wastage with the aims of identifying the level of awareness as well as the causes and effects of food waste among residents of Raub, Pahang. It presents a qualitative research approach to allow the researcher to explore deeper into the area of minimizing household food waste. The findings suggest that the level of awareness and understanding of the impact of food waste on the environment among the households in Raub, Pahang, Malaysia is still low. As the food waste issue is positioned as an "end of pipe", further initiatives involving more people in the whole food system should be considered as well as awareness since everyone holds the responsibility to reduce waste.

The Impact of Attitude, Subjective Norms and Perceived Behavioral Control on Intention to Make Hibah: A Study among Muslims in Klang Valley

“…This study adopted quantitative research because it allows for the easy collection of numerical data that can be utilized to assess and analyze the relationship between the two variables (McLeod, 2019). The population was narrowed down to Muslim in Klang Valley because, Klang Valley has the highest population density ("Department of Statistic Malaysia", 2022) and reported as the biggest contributor to unclaimed wealth amounted to 86% (Ahmad et al, 2019). The convenient sampling design was applied to provide the convenience of having any accessible sample as the subject under investigation (Sekaran & Bougie, 2013).…”

“…The study by Maamor et al (2020) found income and knowledge to be significant towards predicting Muslims' behaviour to choose Hibah. Ahmad (2019) discovers that attitude and promotion have significant effect on hibah awareness while Said et al (2020) employed Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to identify intent for hibah among Muslims in Malaysia and found attitude, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms to have significant positive relationship with hibah intent. That study however only sampled a small percentage of the population and warrant further investigation to contribute more toward the hibah literature in Malaysia.…”

“…Hence this study is proposed to further extend the applicability of TPB on intention to give hibah. The study chose to focus on Muslims in Klang Valley since the prevalence of dispute and pending distribution of Muslims estate is reported to be at approximately 86% (Ahmad et al, 2019). This percentage is considered as high among its population second only to Kedah (Abdullah et al, 2021).…”