Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3r) Awareness Programme to Increase the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on 3r among Primary School Students

Abstract

One of the issues of ineffective solid waste management may be attributable by human behaviour is lack of education and ineffectiveness of reduce, reuse and recycle (3R) awareness programmes, which the solution may lie in changing that behaviour. Therefore, a 3R programme was conducted to increase the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) on 3R among 155 primary school students recruited by systematic random sampling from year one to six at a selected school in Tumpat, Kelantan. A set of questionnaire was given before and after the 3R programme to determine their KAP level and the effectiveness of the awareness programme in increasing their KAP on 3R. There was a significant difference in knowledge score (p = 0.030) but no significant differences in scores of attitude (p = 0.484) and practice (p=0.248) between before and after 3R programme. There was a weak correlation between knowledge and attitude (r=0.320) and between knowledge and practice (r=0.386) for before the 3R programme. There was also moderate correlation between attitude and practice (r=0.400) before the intervention programme. After the intervention programme, the correlation was increased from weak to strong correlation between knowledge and attitude (r=0.614) and weak to moderate correlation between knowledge and practice (r=0.476). There was moderate correlation between attitude and practice after the intervention programme (r=0.520). Hence, continuous awareness on 3R campaign and activities should be conducted at an early age among the students to increase their practices on 3R.

A Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of 3R (Reuse, Reduce and Recycle) Programme among Primary School Students in Tumpat, Kelantan

“…Looking at the significant difference in the mean score knowledge between the two groups, this difference might be due to the 3R exposure given by the local authority or agency (SWCorp) who actively engaged with the school. The findings in our intervention study also reported significant increase in knowledge score (p=0.030) between before and after 3R programme (Anua et al, 2022b). This shows the importance of exposure of 3R program in increasing knowledge among students.…”

“…This study used self-administered and self-developed questionnaire which has been MYIPO copyrighted (LY2018004547) based on SWCorp (2017) module and published in previous studies (Anua et al, 2022a;2022b). The questionnaire consists of four parts.…”

“…Therefore, it can indirectly help our country to achieve a standard of well -managed waste management system. We had previously assessed and analysed the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) on 3R concept at two schools without prior 3R programme (Anua et al, 2022a) and then conducted an awareness programme to increase the KAP on 3R at one of the school without 3R programme in Tumpat (Anua et al, 2022b), which was a different school from the current study. Thus, this current study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of 3R programme in primary schools by comparing the levels of knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) on 3R between school with 3R programme and school without 3R programme.…”