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An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste.

Tremendous increases in biodegradable (food waste) generation significantly impact the local authorities, who are responsible to manage, treat and dispose of this waste. The process of separation of food waste at its generation source is identified as effective means in reducing the amount food wast...

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Main Authors: Wan Ab. Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina, Idris, Azni, Awang Biak, Dayang Radiah, Rusli, Iffah Farizan
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Published: 2013
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spelling my.upm.eprints.285612015-10-09T01:50:27Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28561/ An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste. Wan Ab. Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina Idris, Azni Awang Biak, Dayang Radiah Rusli, Iffah Farizan Tremendous increases in biodegradable (food waste) generation significantly impact the local authorities, who are responsible to manage, treat and dispose of this waste. The process of separation of food waste at its generation source is identified as effective means in reducing the amount food waste sent to landfill and can be reused as feedstock to downstream treatment processes namely composting or anaerobic digestion. However, these efforts will only succeed with positive attitudes and highly participations rate by the public towards the scheme. Thus, the social survey (using questionnaires) to analyse public's view and influencing factors towards participation in source separation of food waste in households based on the theory of planned behaviour technique (TPB) was performed in June and July 2011 among selected staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor. The survey demonstrates that the public has positive intention in participating provided the opportunities, facilities and knowledge on waste separation at source are adequately prepared by the respective local authorities. Furthermore, good moral values and situational factors such as storage convenience and collection times are also encouraged public's involvement and consequently, the participations rate. The findings from this study may provide useful indicator to the waste management authorities in Malaysia in identifying mechanisms for future development and implementation of food waste source separation activities in household programmes and communication campaign which advocate the use of these programmes. 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28561/1/An%20application%20of%20the%20theory%20of%20planned%20behaviour%20to%20study%20the%20influencing%20factors%20of%20participation%20in%20source%20separation%20of%20food%20waste.pdf Wan Ab. Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina and Idris, Azni and Awang Biak, Dayang Radiah and Rusli, Iffah Farizan (2013) An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste. Waste Management, 33 (5). pp. 1276-1281. ISSN 0956-053X 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.09.019 English
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description Tremendous increases in biodegradable (food waste) generation significantly impact the local authorities, who are responsible to manage, treat and dispose of this waste. The process of separation of food waste at its generation source is identified as effective means in reducing the amount food waste sent to landfill and can be reused as feedstock to downstream treatment processes namely composting or anaerobic digestion. However, these efforts will only succeed with positive attitudes and highly participations rate by the public towards the scheme. Thus, the social survey (using questionnaires) to analyse public's view and influencing factors towards participation in source separation of food waste in households based on the theory of planned behaviour technique (TPB) was performed in June and July 2011 among selected staff in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor. The survey demonstrates that the public has positive intention in participating provided the opportunities, facilities and knowledge on waste separation at source are adequately prepared by the respective local authorities. Furthermore, good moral values and situational factors such as storage convenience and collection times are also encouraged public's involvement and consequently, the participations rate. The findings from this study may provide useful indicator to the waste management authorities in Malaysia in identifying mechanisms for future development and implementation of food waste source separation activities in household programmes and communication campaign which advocate the use of these programmes.
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author Wan Ab. Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina
Idris, Azni
Awang Biak, Dayang Radiah
Rusli, Iffah Farizan
spellingShingle Wan Ab. Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina
Idris, Azni
Awang Biak, Dayang Radiah
Rusli, Iffah Farizan
An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste.
author_facet Wan Ab. Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina
Idris, Azni
Awang Biak, Dayang Radiah
Rusli, Iffah Farizan
author_sort Wan Ab. Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina
title An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste.
title_short An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste.
title_full An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste.
title_fullStr An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste.
title_full_unstemmed An application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste.
title_sort application of the theory of planned behaviour to study the influencing factors of participation in source separation of food waste.
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