A preliminary insight into the environmental awareness of community in the vicinity of batik manufacturing units in Kela
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A preliminary insight into the environmental awareness of community in the vicinity of batik manufacturing units in Kelantan, Malaysia Logaraj Ramakreshnan . Arulvani Rajandra . Nasrin Aghamohammadi . Chng Saun Fong . Sathishkumar Nalatambi
Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract In response to a significant contribution of batik industries towards water pollution in Kelantan, this study sought to examine the environmental awareness of the community staying in the vicinity of batik manufacturing units in Kelantan. In this crosssectional study, 160 participants were administered with interviewer-assisted questionnaire surveys between November 2013 and December 2013. Information pertaining to the participants’ awareness of the batik manufacturing process, nature and disposal of dyes as well as the associated environmental and health impacts due to improper wastewater discharges were recorded. Chi square and multivariate binary logistic regression model was deployed to determine the significance between the socio-demographic variables and the items assessed to explore their environmental awareness. Despite a limited awareness on the batik manufacturing process and chemical properties of dyes, more than half of the study participants were more likely to be aware of the dye disposal methods
L. Ramakreshnan (&) A. Rajandra N. Aghamohammadi C. S. Fong Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia e-mail: [email protected] S. Nalatambi Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
utilized by the manufacturing units as well as the environmental and health impacts of the wastewater discharges in their neighbourhood. Among the sociodemographic variables, having a formal education recorded a significant association with the nature of dye, dye disposal method, environmental and health impacts due to improper dye disposal. In a nutshell, this study contributed useful empirical insights on the current environmental awareness levels of the community near the batik manufacturing units in Kelantan to devise interventions for the cultivation of community-based surveillance. Keywords Batik Community health Environmental awareness Environmental health Urban health Water pollution
Introduction The profile of batik industries in Malaysia has elevated to a global stage after received stupendous governmental attention in the early 2000s. In general, batik refers to a wax-resist dyeing technique on fabrics (Akhir et al. 2018). Malaysian batik products always rejoice an international edge due to their versatile patterns and distinct hues compared with the ones from the other regions (Samin et al. 2017; Shaari and Abd Rahman 2017). Indeed, batik is visualized as a potential lucrative national enterprise after a
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successful promotion as one of the items in the creative industries by United Nations Conference on Trade
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