A Preliminary Study on Household Readiness to Engage in Waste Segregation Behavior

In Malaysia, two critical issues are identified in waste management: (i) lacking of readiness towards recycling and (ii) segregating. If not properly managed, it leads to massive waste generation at the landfill. Uncontrollable massive waste generation in landfill has various negative impact towards the community. For this reason, this project aims to investigate the household readiness towards waste segregation in one of the cities in Malaysia, Kuantan. The project employs 364 houses for sampling, but only 283 give the response and are willing to participate in this project. This project has two main findings: i) waste generation for each residential area, and statistics on readiness of household towards waste segregation. In conclusion, this project anticipates that only very few numbers of households that are participating in waste segregation. This situation reflects the current scenario in Malaysia. This number only came from one of the cities in Malaysia. With this limited study within limited area of research, this project notes that lacking of readiness would not help the government, or related agencies to make it success of waste segregation project. In fact, this project is crucial for the purpose of sustainable development goals. (C) 2020 Published by European Publisher.