RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEVEL OF AWARENESS AND WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE IN RECYCLING
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Awareness, municipal solid waste, recycling, willingness to participateAbstract
Municipal solid waste is increasingly becoming a significant environmental challenge as a result of population growth and rapid development. Accordingly, environmental degradation such as air and water pollution as well as disease spread could happen. Recycling is the best approach to reduce environmental impacts from mismanagement of municipal solid waste. This study focuses on the recycling awareness level and willingness to participate in recycling practices as these two elements are the key factors affecting recycling behavior. Puchong suburban residential area is selected as the study area because most of the waste is generated in residential areas. A total of 424 residents were selected through multistage sampling, a combination of cluster random sampling and simple random sampling to participate in this research. The respondents are surveyed through a mixed-mode method to gather their perspectives towards recycling practices in daily lives. The questionnaires distributed consisted of three sections for socio-demographic background, recycling awareness and willingness to participate, respectively. The results discovered that the residents had a high awareness level of recycling with an overall mean of 4.08. Moreover, the residents were greatly willing to participate in recycling with an overall mean of 4.07. Besides, Kendall’s tau-b correlation, r = 0.451 and Spearman rank-order correlation, r = 0.600 showed that there was a moderate correlation between recycling awareness and willingness to participate. Therefore, to encourage the public’s participation and contribution towards recycling, local authorities shall continually take decisive actions to promote recycling awareness and disseminate recycling information. In addition, this research contributes to the knowledge of relationship between the two variables.
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