Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Attitude, Environmental Motivation, Local Government Commitment, and Zero Waste Behaviour of Perumnas Society of Makassar City

Waste problem has become a serious problem in the world including a housing which is the location of the settlement for society. At least, there are three problems resulting from the waste problem, namely global warming, natural resources crisis, and ecosystem crisis. Zero waste is a concept that is used to overcome the waste problem. In order to zero waste can be realized, behaviour from every society is needed. Zero waste behaviour can be influenced by several factors, such as knowledge, attitude, motivation, and commitment. This study aimed to describe environmental knowledge (EK), environmental attitude (EA), environmental motivation (EM), local government commitment (LGC) and zero waste behaviour (ZWB) of Perumnas society of Makassar City, and to describe the influence of EK, EA, EM, and GCindividually and together toward ZWB of Perumnas society of Makassar City. Data collecting were gathered by questionnaire deployment to 60 societies of PerumnasBumiTamalanreaPermai and PerumnasAntang. After did statistic examine, the research result showed that EK is in high category (38.33%), EA is in high category (33.33%), EM is in medium category (33.33%), LGC is in medium category (35%), and ZWB is in medium category (36.67%). EK, EA, EM, and LGC influenced toward ZWB individually and together. Based on the result, (1) EK affects toward ZWB, with significance value was 0.000 FTable2.400. Keywords: Knowledge, attitude, motivation, commitment, behaviour, zero waste, environmental

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Environmental issues are problems that arise from the results of greedy human activities in exploiting nature. Many environmental issues have made humans vulnerable to disasters. The utilization of energy resources carried out by humans today results in air pollution, the greenhouse effect, and global warming. The environment becomes degraded due to human activation, a degraded environment will only have a negative impact on human life. This article discusses human knowledge and attitudes towards environmental issues. Environmental knowledge is general knowledge about facts, concepts, or relationships related to the surrounding environment and its ecosystem. Every human being has different environmental knowledge because it is influenced by factors of education, experience, information, the area of residence. Knowledge of the environment that humans have will support their environmental attitudes and behavior. Every environmental issue that occurs will bring up two kinds of attitudes in the community, namely positive and negative attitudes. Every attitude possessed by humans will determine what steps they will choose in facingenvironmental issues, such as turning off lights, turning off electronic equipment, choosing vehicles with minimal emissions. Keywords: Environmental Issues, Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Attitudes