An investigation on knowledge, attitude and practice among students of University Malaya towards solid waste management / Zahrasadat Masoumidezfouli

• Main Author: Zahrasadat, Masoumidezfouli
• Format: Thesis
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering

Nowadays, solid waste management has become a challenging issue globally. In Malaysia, solid waste management is one of the three major environmental problems which require urgent actions. New planning, in order to manage solid waste, is greatly rely on public participation, and most of the environmentally friendly plans should be tackled at individual level. As a result, students would be good representatives of society and young generation, in which any environmentally research on this group would be a great help for the future planning. A cross sectional study was designed to investigate the level of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) among students in University of Malaya (UM). A questionnaire consisted of seven sections, as per the theory of planned behaviour, has been spread among 399 students. Investigations indicated that some factors namely age, gender, educational level and income influenced the KAP level among students. According to the results, The KAP level was significantly higher among female compared with male. Also, younger students aged between 18 and 25 have a lower level of KAP compared with other age groups. Another finding of this Work was that, as the income increased, the KAP level also became higher; however, this trend happened only up to the income level of RM10000/month. KAP drastically dropped among groups consisted of salary of more than RM10000/month. Results suggested that, there were also positive relationships between intention and the level of attitude, perceived behaviour control and subjective norm (