Abstract:

Our study aims to evaluate how economic motives effect to households’ intention to participate in waste management along with environmental concern, waste processing convenience and households’ exposure to waste management campaign. We also evaluate how existence of waste collector and attitude toward thrift moderate those relationships. We conducted research and specifically in Depok, West Java, Indonesia, on household participated to community program 2019 carried out by Universitas Indonesia. They were trained to utilize composter kits to process household waste to be liquid and solid compos fertilizer and granted with composter kits. We compared their intention to waste processing to household which are not participating in the program. We found that householders participated in the program does not show higher intention to process their household waste compared to group who do not participate in the program. We then found that environmental concern is the strongest factors that determine household intention to process household, while economic motives negatively correlate to household intention to process their waste.