Factors Related to Household Waste Management Behavior in Calang, Aceh Jaya Regency

Abstract

Background: Waste management deals with health issues, climate change, poverty alleviation, food and resource security, and sustainable production and consumption. Objective: Analyze factors related to household waste management behavior in Calang, Aceh Jaya Regency. Method: This type of research is quantitative research with the number of research subjects as many as 135 heads of families using the cross sectional method.  Endogenous research variables of this study are household waste management behavior and exogenous variables are knowledge, awareness, infrastructure, attitudes, and information. Data collection using questionnaires and data dialysis using the SmartPLS method. Results: There was a significant relationship between attitudes (t-statistics = 1.984), infrastructure facilities (t-statistics = 6.807), and information (t-statistics = 2.339) with household waste management behavior. There was no significant association between knowledge (t-statistics = 0.260) and awareness (t-statistics = 0.650) and household waste management behavior. Conclusion: Attitudes, infrastructure and information are factors related to household waste management behavior in Calang Aceh Jaya Regency, knowledge and awareness are variables that are not related to household waste management behavior, this is possible due to lack of socialization related to household waste management to the community and the influence of local customs and culture.