Factors That Influence People Behaviors in Waste Management in the Village of Tong Marimbun Pematang Siantar in 2018

Waste is something which is disposed; therefore, it is necessary to manage it so that home environment is always clean and free form it. The objective of this research was to analyze some factors which were correlated with people’s behavior in managing waste. The research used cross sectional design. It was conducted at Neighborhoods of Tong Marimbun, Siantar Marimbun Subdistrict, Pematang Siantar, in 2018. The population was 491 families, and 100 of them were used as the samples. The data were gathered by distributing questionnaires, processed by editing, coding, entry, cleaning, and tabulating, and analyzed by using univariate analysis, bivariate analysis with chi square test, and multivariate analysis with logistic regression test. The result of the research showed that there was no correlation of education (p=0.272) and knowledge (p=0.363) with people’s behavior in managing waste. There was the correlation of attitude (p=<0.001) and the availability of facility and infrastructure (p=<0.001) with people’s behavior in managing waste. The variable which had the most dominant correlation was the variable of attitude (p=