Abstract—Pollution is one major problem that has never
been completely solved up until now. Though it has been
discussed and debated for over decades, these continuous acts
are becoming more harmful to human beings as well as the
environment. As the seriousness of the matter started to capture
world’s attention, solution such as recycling has been put
forward. Imperative as it is, the responsibility falls on human
attitudes to apply recycling in daily life. Among the matter
discussed is paper usage which is indisputably very prominent
in human life particularly teenagers. With 408 teenagers as
respondents, the objectives of this paper are to identify the
perceptions’ of teenagers in reusing as well as recycling papers
in their life. The findings indicate that even though they were
aware with the need of reusing and recycling, they did not
practise it in life.
Index Terms—Pollution, recycle, reuse, teenagers,
environment.
Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob, Abdul Mutalib Embong, and Azilin
Mohd Noor are with the Universiti Teknologi Petronas
(e-mail:{Iskandar_yaacob, mutalib_embong,
azelin_noor}@petronas.com.my).
MahfuzahRafek is with the Universiti Teknologi Mara
(e-mail:mahfu001@perak.uitm.edu.my).
PuteriZarinaMegat Khalid is with the Unikl Mimet (e-mail:
puterizarina@mimet.unikl.edu.my).
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Cite: Raja Ahmad Iskandar Raja Yaacob, Abdul Mutalib Embong, Azelin Mohamed Noor, Puteri Zarina
Megat Khalid, and Mahfuzah Rafek, " Understanding the Attitudes of Teenagers towards Reuse
and Recycle in Paper Usage," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 677-681, 2015.