Potentialities of the environmental law and policy for e-waste recycling: a vista for sustainable development

E-waste production contains damaged, obsolete, non-functional, old, or expired goods, which are allocated into two sources: industrial and household production. Disposing e-waste will hurt public well-being. This study was conducted to examine the effects of environmental law and policy on the connections between environmental attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and e-waste recycling. The chosen study location was the southern region of Malaysia, and consisted of selected individual residents. The methodology used was quantitative, and this study used a questionnaire as the primary material; 258 respondents answered the survey. The data investigation method used was moderated regression analysis. This study concludes that environmental attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control positively affect e-waste recycling behavior. Interaction investigation in regression shows that environmental laws and regulations can develop the control of environmental attitudes and subjective norms on e-waste recycling behavior. In contrast, environmental laws and regulations do not moderate the correlation between perceived behavioral control and e-waste recycling. Thus, the Malaysian government requires a strong legal and institutional structure for environmental protection and self-control practices to foster sustainable development.