Integrated Waste Management System Among College Students

Abstract

Integrated Waste management system was the important thing to protect and control the transmission disease. Waste was still the main problem in Indonesia. The College students were the agent of change to better environmental, essecially to manage the waste. The purpose of this study is to analyze the knowledge, attitude and practice of the college students about the waste management system in their campus. The method of this research is a cross sectional study that conducted in Jember, Indonesia on Agustus 2019. The sample were 1230 college students that token randomly. The results showed that the characteristic of respondents were 63,1 % female, 75,1 % living in the boarding house and their parent`s job were farmer, fisherman etc (46,1 %). The knowledge were good (94%), positif attitute (97,2%) and moderate practice (73,7%) on waste management system. The respondents have good knowledge and positive attitude but their practice had moderate. There were sig correlation spearman between knowledge (p=0,00), attitude (p=0,019) and their practice. The college students were the key to change the community practice abaut intergrated management system, so they should have had good practice in the waste management system.