Waste separation at source behaviour among undergraduate student in Universiti Teknolologi Mara (UiTM) cawangan Selangor kampus Puncak Alam: article

Source separation of waste is essential to address the crisis in waste management in Malaysia. Effective and efficient system to manage the accumulated waste generated is required as to reduce the drawback posed to the environment and human health. Consequently, the government has taken various approaches to open the eye of the public regarding current situation and the urgency to minimise the waste disposed in the landfill. However, the efforts taken were focussing among households rather than the young generations like university students. Therefore, by the application of the theoretical framework; Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), a study on waste separation at source behaviour was conducted among students as to determine the factors that most influence their intention to conduct source separation behaviour. In this cross-sectional study, 197 undergraduate students from Faculty of Health Sciences, UiTM Puncak Alam were involved. An online questionnaire were administered for assessing socio-demographic and TPB constructs which composed of attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control (PBC), separation intention, and waste separation behaviour. The findings demonstrate that subjective norms are the factor that most influence the intention to perform waste separation behaviour, whereas PBC is the critical factor that directly influences the waste separation behaviour.