Abstract:
As the world population grew, waste production increase drastically. Similarly, waste
generated by higher education institutions continues to go up. To overcome this issue,
many universities have been moving towards sustainable campus. However, factors
influencing sustainable waste management remains unclear and very limited research
regarding this issue were conducted on academics. Hence, the objectives of this study
are; (1) to examine the effect of environmental awareness, environmental knowledge
and environmental beliefs on attitude, (2) to examine the effect of attitude on
sustainable waste management behaviour, (3) to examine the effect of subjective norms
on sustainable waste management behaviour and (4) to examine the effect of perceived
behavioural control on sustainable waste management behaviour. This study employed
the theory of planned behaviour as the underlying theory. The sample for this study
consisted of 252 academics from the top three universities in the UI GreenMetric 2018
ranking for Malaysia. The respondents were surveyed using an online and selfadministered survey. The data were analysed using Partial Least Squares Structural
Equation Modelling through SmartPLS 3.2.8. The findings indicated that environmental
awareness and environmental beliefs have positive effect on attitude whereas
environmental knowledge has no effect on attitude. On the contrary, attitude had a
negative effect on sustainable waste management behaviour.
