Household awareness of recycling food waste as fertilizer for agriculture in Kelantan

Nowadays, most households in Malaysia are still not sensitive to food waste that is thrown away, wasted just like that. Statistics state that about 4,600 tonnes of food that is still in good condition has been wasted throughout Peninsular Malaysia since 2017. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the awareness of households in Kelantan about food waste that can be recycled into fertilizer in agriculture. This study uses a method based on purposive sampling. The sample size of the study was 130 respondents. SPSS version 26.0 was used to analyse reliability tests, descriptive and correlation analysis. Questionnaires were distributed online as a medium to measure the level of households awareness of in the study area. The study also uses demographic factors such as age, occupation and level of education that can influence the level of household awareness in the disposal of food waste that can still be recycled for use as fertilizer in agriculture. The independent variables in this study were knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms and behavioral control while the dependent variable was awareness of recyclable food waste. A quantitative research design was used and questionnaires were compiled based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The findings showed that high scores were recorded for household awareness of food waste recycling (M =4.46), attitudes (M = 3.91), subjective norms (M = 3.63) and perceived behaviors (M = 3.68). In general, there was a significant relationship between household awareness of food waste recycling with perceived attitudes, subjective norms and behavioral controls.