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Awareness and Willingness Among the Residents in Johor Bahru City MATEC Web of Conferences 150, 05078 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815005078 MUCET 2017 Awareness and willingness among the residents in Johor Bahru City Council and Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council of Iskandar Malaysia-Im (Wpi@Sjer) towards recycling Nora Farina Mohd Halim1,*, Nur Zaidani Wati Mohd Darwis1 , and Juliana Martin1 1Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Cawangan Johor, Kampus Pasir Gudang, Malaysia Abstract. Solid waste is increasingly becoming an important urban challenge as a result from population growth and also the development of economy and culture which has improved the standard of living and the lifestyle of the people. If left unchecked, solid waste could lead to severe environmental degradation. In order to reduce the environmental impact of waste disposal, recycling has been introduced. About twenty percent of our solid waste can be recyclable, rather than disposing it through landfills or incinerators. Residential area is the best place to practice recycling because most of the waste is generated there every day. This research focus on the awareness level and the recycling knowledge among the residents in Johor Bahru City council and Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council of Iskandar Malaysia. A total of 500 residents were surveyed and the questionnaires were focused on the waste management and also the recycling knowledge. The results discovered that more than 50% of the residents’ state that they practicing recycle and they also aware of the environmental and economic benefits from recycling. As a conclusion, the residents are prepared for recycling if the recycling amenities are available and easy to reach by them. 1 Introduction In line with the vision 2020, the development of materials, lessen the intake of fresh raw materials, economic and urban transformation is emerging energy usage, air pollution and water pollution tremendously. The population in Malaysia has extended .Recycling is a key element of modern waste reduction up to 30 million people in year 2016 according to the and is the third element of the "Reduce, Reuse and Department of Statistics Malaysia. The growing of the Recycle" waste hierarchy [4]. population contributes to the increase of solid waste Recycling is a process of reusing items that would be production in Malaysia. rejected as waste. There are few types of recycling Besides that, the changes of living standard and a include upcycling, which involves adding value to an variety of daily activities among Malaysian will also lead element for reuse, and downcycling, which involves to this excessive solid waste production [1]. Even though breaking down an element or material into its component “Recycling” has been accepted worldwide as a method to reuse anything that can be reclaimed. of waste disposal, Malaysia’s domestic recycling rate is Precycling is a different approach which involves still low at about five percent [2]. Iskandar Malaysia has avoiding the acquisition of excessive items that would presented a severe waste generation growth from time to have eventually have to be recycled or dealt with as time. waste. Waste reduction and recycling are no longer a preference but a needed step to ensure a healthy life style and at also to protect our surrounding. Conferring to [3], Malaysia is one of the Asian countries that produced the most municipal solid waste Recycling is the method of changing waste materials into reusable objects to avoid waste of possibly useful * Corresponding author: [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). MATEC Web of Conferences 150, 05078 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815005078 MUCET 2017 2 Study area 3 Methodology The leading southern deelopment corridor in ohor is Iskandar Malaysia IM which preiously known as 3.1 Research design Soth ohor conomic Region SJER). n oember uestionnaires run as the main data while literature 2006 skandar Malaysia was estalished. The deelopment is managed y skandar Regional reviews run as minor data. The random sample for this eelopment Authority IRDA) and was named after the research will be any houses in skandar alaysia late Sultan of ohor, lmarhum ultan skandar ini selected randomly y accessibility. Two urisdictions of Almarhum ultan smail 5]. igure 1 and igure 2 show local authority in skandar alaysia will e involved in the whereabout and geographical coverage of Iskandar this study which is Majlis Bandaraya Johor Bahru Malaysia. (Johor ahru ity Council and Majlis Perbandaran Johor Bahru Tengah (Johor ahru Tengah unicial Council. or this research there will be a total of aout 500 resondents for the two urisdictions of local authority. 3.2 Analysis mechanism The analysis mechanism used for data collection is a questionnaire. It will be delierate as accurate as possile for resondents to e ale to answer the question without difficulty. The study was steered using structured uestionnaire that covered two asic Figure 1: Location of sandar Malaysia princiles which is aout the waste management and the recycling nowledge. n this research, the questionnaire will be distriuted to the respondent involved y hand. The final data were statistically analysed using the SS. 4 Results and discussion 4.1 Evaluation of Solid Waste Management in Majlis Bandaraya Johor Bahru (Johor Bahru City Council) and Majlis Perbandaran Johor Bahru Tengah (Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council) Table 1: esults uestionnaire for Waste anaement Geographical overage of sandar Malaysia Figure 2: Number of Question Answer Respondents The total area of the development reion of is 217 square kilometres which cover the city of ohor ahru Pontian, enai asir Gudang and the new administrative MPJB MPJBT investment in skandar uteri. The district of ohor Bahru is included in its whole, as well as the parts of the The fulfilment Yes 148 171 district of ontian. ive local government authorities of the respondent o 77 39 have the urisdiction over the covered area, including A1 with the aste ot ajlis andaraya Johor ahru, ajlis erbandaran collection system 22 41 in the area. sure Johor ahru Tengah, ajlis Perbandaran asir udang, ajlis erbandaran ulaiand ajlis aerah ontian . n The efficiency of Yes 118 146 this research we ust focus on the awareness level and the collection o 68 5 A2 system. ot the recycling knowledge of the two local urisdiction of 0 50 the local authority in skandar alaysia which is ajlis sure Bandaraya Johor ahru and ajlis erbandaran ohor Bahru Tengah 2 MATEC Web of Conferences 150, 05078 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815005078 MUCET 2017 Freuent in a 0- 5 0 for o 48 39 A3 wee the trash times concet. ot 5 44 overflowed. 3-5 sure 5 5 times B2 What are R Reduce 122 5 5- stands for? euse; 6 5 times Recycle Reduce 69 5 s odour waste Rarely 88 113 euse; Recycle scattered, and verage 122 111 A4 breeding of flies Reduce 5 5 euse; are common in ften 37 27 your area Recycle B3 Do you Yes 134 0 <0. 78 0 recycle? o 5 76 kg/day ot 27 36 Amount of aste 0. sure 5 generate each 0 94 kg/day B4 reuency 1 times 42 50 day. 0.6 recycle 2 times 0 68 74 5 kg/day monthly. 3 times 41 44 >3times 5 21 Question A1 was to classify the fulfillment of waste Never 67 67 collection systems in the area and the outcomes shows B5 Searated Yes 0 197 that 9.9 of the residents were pleased with the the trash or o 5 24 collection system in MJB while 8.1 were pleased in not. ot 12 29 MJBT. The number of residents were not pleased with sure the crrent method of waste collection were 31.2 for MJB and 5.5 for MBT. B6 o you Yes 182 187 or uestion 2, 8 of the residents in MJB separate thought positively of the current collection system while arbae for o 63 63 58.4% thoght positively in MPJBT. 6% for MPJB recycling? and 1.6 for MBT did not consider the collection system is effectie B7 umber of in 5 5 Results for uestion A3 displayed the residents recycling opinions on the ecess of trash ins -2 times a week ins to e in 5 137 were 62.9% for MPJB and 3% for MPJBT, 3-5 times provided. per week were 34.7% for MPJB and for MPJBT in 44 50 and -7 timed per week were 2.4 for MB and 2 for 5 in 17 12 MPJBT. Furthermore, the results for uestion A4 showed B8 Participation Yes 223 223 in recycle if 35.6 for MB and 5 for MBT of the residents implemented o 0 6 thought of trash contamination in their area as in alaysia. eceptional, followed y 5 for MJB and 0.8 for ot 14 22 MJBT showed contamination rate at trash house are sure often. Results indicate that in uestion 5 2.2 for MJB and 6.1 for MJBT residents epected waste Results for uestion 1 showed a total of 6.1% for generation amount is less than .6kgday while 0.6 MBJB and 6.4% for PJBT residents understood the for MJB and 6.1 for MJBT of residents will concept of R. eanwhile 9.6% for PJB and15.8% generate more than .6kgdays. for JBT residents did not know aout 3R concept. For uestion 2, 50.% for BJB and .% for MPJBT residents knew the right order of R. esult for 4.2 Awareness and Recycling knowledge of uestion showed that 5.5% for BJB and 55.5% for respondent MPJBT residents carry out the recycling while 4.6% for MBJB and 0.2% for JBT residents did not perform Table 2 : esults uestionnaire for ecycling nowledge recycling activities.
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