Yaziz, Nur Atiqah (2016) Knowledge, attitude and practice of recycling activity among secondary school students in Hulu Langat. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Project paper (B.Sc.(Environmental & Occupational Health)) - Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2015 Introduction: Solid waste generation is one of the major environmental problems faced by municipalities in the world. Thus. proper solid waste management such as recycling is necessary in preventing further environment destruction. In Malaysia, the country is producing more than 15000 tomes per day of waste and by the year 2020, it will reach 30000 tomes per day. Although awareness and concern about the problem of waste are constantly increasing, participation in recycling programme is still rather low especially among teenagers. Therefore responsibility is placed on the government hand to implement effective programme that considers the needs of individual and the environment which can adopt environmentally friendly behaviour and if individual perceive that recycling is an important issue, perhaps because of their knowledge, they will surely invest their time and effort in recycling programme. Objective: To study the knowledge, attitude and practice toward recycling activity among secondary school students in Hulu Langat. Methodology: A total of 500 respondents who fulfilled the inclusive criteria were selected in different location of school of Hulu Langat based on rural and urban area. Students who were form six students and unable to read and write were exclude from the study. Questionnaires were administered to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice on recycling activity and their social demographic information. Results and Discussion: Both groups showed dominance on moderate level for independent variable. Level of knowledge for urban and rural schools was moderate which was 185 (74.0%) and 201 (80.4). Level of attitude for urban and rural schools was also showed moderate which was 195 (78%) and 193 (77.2%). Meanwhile, for practice level both schools showed bad practice on recycling which was 176 (70.4%) for urban school and 190 (76.0%) for rural school. There was difference in mean of knowledge and practice score between urban and rural schools (p<0.05, p= 0.018 and p= 0.012). However, there was no difference in mean of attitude between urban and rural schools (p>0.05, p= 0.581). There was an association between age with attitude and practice level (p<0.05, p= 0.018, p= 0.00). Knowledge level and practice level showed and association which students with low knowledge tend to have poor practice on recycling activity (p<0.001, p= 0.00). There was an association between attitude and practice of recycling (p<0.01, p= 0.00). Students with moderate attitude tend to have poor practice on recycling activity. Conclusion: Secondary school from both locations had moderate knowledge, attitude and poor practice on recycling activity. Urban and rural school students had difference in term of knowledge and practice towards recycling activities due to urban schools had already been exposed to variety technique of waste management. Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude. Practice, Hulu Langat, Secondary School Students
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
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| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Adni Syuhaida Zon |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2022 04:00 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2023 03:21 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/603 |
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