An Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) Towards Recycling Activity in Kuantan Pahang, Malaysia

This study was conducted among the householders at residential area in kuantan at 6 places in Kuantan. It was involving 308 of respondents from all 6 places in Kuantan (Bukit Rangin, Bukit Istana, Astana View, Jaya Gading, Taman RasauPerdana and Seri DamaiPerdana). The main purpose of this study was to investigate the level of knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of household recycling towards solid waste management. Besides that, the study also was conducted to identify which factors among the demographic profiles of gender, ages, household incomes and level of education could give the significantly different to KAP. Then, this study investigated the significant relationship among of each KAP variables. Data for this study was obtained in quantitative studies through questionnaires and analysing them using the SPSS software. This study was using the statistically testing of t-test, One-Way ANOVA and Pearson correlation. For genders the statistical testing's using was the independent t-test, and it was found that that males and females did not significantly different (p > 0.05) towards the KAP of household recycling.