Confirmation of E-Waste Sustainable Management Instrument in the Community

Abstract

This article aims to build instruments for the purpose of measuring sustainability of e-waste management in the community. For the purposes of testing the validity and reliability of e-waste sustainability management tools in the community, Exploration Factor Analysis (EFA) and Validation Factor Analysis (CFA) are used. The respondents were 500 people from nine districts
in Selangor. Sample selection is by district, based on cluster sampling according to population size and selection of respondents is made using simple random sampling method. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was conducted after the data was obtained and the item removal and repair process was done to form the study construction. Data were analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and reliability analysis. The results showed that the three main constructs of the study were the knowledge, attitude and practice of e-waste disposal. There are four sub-constructs for knowledge and practice of waste disposal i.e. environment, social, health, and economy. While for the construction of e-waste disposal it consists of two sub
constructs, namely environment and economy. The reliability value obtained is greater than 0.7 for all tested constructs. The implications of the study suggest that knowledge, attitude, and ewaste disposal practices need to be applied in communities that manage e-waste sustainably.