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Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward

E-waste management is one of the complex dilemmas in most countries, yet it is still new in Sabah. E-waste can be defined as any discarded electrical and electronic equipment such as mobile phone, air conditioner, refrigerator and many more. Proper Ewaste management are essential in ensuring harm...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Mohd Shuaib, Edward, Sharon
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Perception
Awareness
Refuse and refuse disposal
Energy conservation
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47704/1/47704.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.477042021-06-18T02:10:04Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47704/ Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward Ahmad, Mohd Shuaib Edward, Sharon Perception Awareness Refuse and refuse disposal Energy conservation E-waste management is one of the complex dilemmas in most countries, yet it is still new in Sabah. E-waste can be defined as any discarded electrical and electronic equipment such as mobile phone, air conditioner, refrigerator and many more. Proper Ewaste management are essential in ensuring harmful environment that contribute in human health. The objective of this study is to analyse the level of public awareness and the E-waste practice among the public in Sepanggar area. This study is significant to shed more light on the issues regarding E-waste management in Malaysia especially in Sabah. The data and information used in this study were collected by distributing 300 questionnaires randomly in Sepanggar area. However, there were only 296 that have been submitted back to researchers. Besides that, this study also used secondary method such reviewing document from both online and offline resources. All the information gathered is important to bring some ideas in conducting the research. The results indicate that the majority of the respondent has moderate level of awareness (mean of 3.29) while level of practice also have moderate level (mean 3.06). Weak positive relationship between level of awareness and level of practice are also revealed in this research. Although review showed that demographic background such as age and type of employment contribute to level of awareness, this study pointed out the opposite result. 2016-06 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47704/1/47704.pdf ID47704 Ahmad, Mohd Shuaib and Edward, Sharon (2016) Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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topic Perception
Awareness
Refuse and refuse disposal
Energy conservation
spellingShingle Perception
Awareness
Refuse and refuse disposal
Energy conservation
Ahmad, Mohd Shuaib
Edward, Sharon
Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward
description E-waste management is one of the complex dilemmas in most countries, yet it is still new in Sabah. E-waste can be defined as any discarded electrical and electronic equipment such as mobile phone, air conditioner, refrigerator and many more. Proper Ewaste management are essential in ensuring harmful environment that contribute in human health. The objective of this study is to analyse the level of public awareness and the E-waste practice among the public in Sepanggar area. This study is significant to shed more light on the issues regarding E-waste management in Malaysia especially in Sabah. The data and information used in this study were collected by distributing 300 questionnaires randomly in Sepanggar area. However, there were only 296 that have been submitted back to researchers. Besides that, this study also used secondary method such reviewing document from both online and offline resources. All the information gathered is important to bring some ideas in conducting the research. The results indicate that the majority of the respondent has moderate level of awareness (mean of 3.29) while level of practice also have moderate level (mean 3.06). Weak positive relationship between level of awareness and level of practice are also revealed in this research. Although review showed that demographic background such as age and type of employment contribute to level of awareness, this study pointed out the opposite result.
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author Ahmad, Mohd Shuaib
Edward, Sharon
author_facet Ahmad, Mohd Shuaib
Edward, Sharon
author_sort Ahmad, Mohd Shuaib
title Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward
title_short Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward
title_full Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward
title_fullStr Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward
title_full_unstemmed Public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) management in Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu / Mohd Shuaib Ahmad and Sharon Edward
title_sort public awareness and practice on the electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) management in sepanggar, kota kinabalu / mohd shuaib ahmad and sharon edward
publishDate 2016
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47704/1/47704.pdf
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