Peningkatan jumlah penduduk dan pertumbuhan pesat proses perbandaran dan faktor lain secara langsung mengakibatkan penghasilan sisa pepejal perbandaran. Jumlah kuantiti besar yang dihasilkan terutamanya di Semenanjung Malaysia merekodkan peningkatan daripada 16,200 tan sehari pada tahun 2001 kepada 19,100 tan sehari pada tahun 2005 atau purata per kapita sebanyak 0.8 kg sehari. Jumlah ini kian meningkat dari tahun ke tahun selari dengan penghasilan sisa pepejal di kawasan perbandaran negara–negara Asia lain yang dianggarkan berjumlah 8 juta tan sehari. Justeru, kertas kerja ini membincangkan secara ringkas senario penghasilan sisa pepejal perbandaran di Malaysia. Perbincangan terfokus kepada aliran penghasilan sisa pepejal perbandaran, jenis komposisi, faktorfaktor penyumbang, selain masalah pengurusan sisa pepejal yang sedang dialami oleh Malaysia. Juga dibincangkan, data statistik terkini yang ada hubungkait dengan pengurusan sisa pepejal perbandaran untuk mengetahui keadaan serta rancangan yang sedang dan akan dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan. Perkembangan terkini menunjukkan kerajaan Malaysia sedang dan akan membuat tindakan kehadapan untuk menangani masalah pengurusan sisa pepejal perbandaran di seluruh Majlis Perbandaran (termasuk dewan bandaraya) di seluruh negara. Antara langkah yang diambil termasuklah menutup operasi beberapa tapak pembuangan terbuka terpilih, menaikkan taraf beberapa tapak pengambusan sedia ada kepada pengambusan jenis sanitari, membina pusat–pusat pemindahan, serta memberi keutamaan sistem pelupusan alternatif di masa terdekat. Selain itu, penubuhan perbadanan pengurusan sisa pepejal negara serta meluluskan pembentukan undang–undang khusus berkaitan pembersihan dan pengurusan sisa pepejal perbandaran pada November 2007 lalu dilihat sebagai langkah proaktif ke arah mencapai sasaran pengurusan sisa pepejal yang mampan untuk penyelesaian jangka masa panjang. Kata kunci: Malaysia; pelupusan; pengurusan sisa pepejal; perbandaran; sisa pepejal perbandaran Increasing population and tremendous urbanisation growth and other factors influence directly the municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in Malaysia. The huge quantity of MSW generation, particularly in Peninsular Malaysia, has increased from 16,200 tonnes per day in 2001 to 19,100 tonnes per day in 2005 or an average of 0.8 kg/capita/day. The amount increases yearly and seems to grow in parallel with the urban areas in many Asian countries which are estimated to produce approximately 8 million tonnes per day. Thus, this paper briefly discusses the scenario of MSW generation in Malaysia. It focuses on the trends of MSW generation, the composition of MSW, the contributing factors as well as the management problems occurring in Malaysia presently. In addition, some updated statistical figures related to the MSW and management aspects are provided to clarify the present situation and the government’s future planning. Recent development indicates that the Malaysian government has taken forward to deal with such problems in MSW management across the municipalities through closed dumping sites, upgrading existing conventional landfills to sanitary status, constructing new transfer stations and giving serious priority for an alternative disposal system in the near future. Moreover, the establishing a new national solid waste and public cleansing management corporation and enacted a new specific regulations for solid waste and public cleansing management which approved on September 2007 is also seen as a proactive step towards achieving the sustainability of MSW management as a long term solution. Key words: Disposal; Malaysia; management; municipal solid waste (MSW); municipal solid waste generation

The tremendous increased of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in most major cities in Malaysia is observed as a main issue recently. This paper reviews the MSW management comprises many issues arises from the past two decades till the present scenario. It briefly discussed the latest definition of the solid waste based on the Solid Waste and Public Cleaning Management Act (Bill 2007). Out of many MSW discussions, this paper also covers the recent status of the MSW generation, the regulations, the trends of MSW generation as well as local research effort which could a wide interest to the researchers and practitioners. It is hoped that this work will provide a ready reference as additional databases on MSW management situation in Malaysia. Thus an appropriate action can be taken by the relevant authority for their future planning and decision-making purposes.

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Recently, there is a rising concern among researchers regarding the issue of sustainable criteria for quality of life (QoL). As it gains more interest, the issue becomes highly debated worldwide especially with regards to the national park community area. The aim of this study is to assess the identified sustainable criteria for QoL, particularly for the surrounding community of Ledang National Park (LNP) using the fuzzy Analytical Network Process (ANP). The fuzzy ANP was employed based on graded mean integration of representation and canonical representation of multiple operations to derive both local and global weights. To show the feasibility of the proposed method, three decision makers (DMs) were identified from the relevant agencies to assess three main criteria using linguistic evaluation via pairwise comparison process. In addition, nine sub-criteria were also investigated and analysed thoroughly using six steps of the fuzzy ANP towards achieving the sustainable criteria for QoL assessment. Based on the numerical analysis, it was found that the sub-criterion health(c32) has the highest global weight with a score of 0.184, which indicates that this sub-criterion is the biggest contributor to achieve the sustainability of QoL. The results also revealed the overall total score of 73.14%, thus placing LNP in the ‘moderately sustainable’ category. In the future, the entire investigated sub-criteria are suggested to be maintained and used to measure the sustainability of QoL. The findings from this study can be used to guide and assist the relevant authorities for future development planning in studied areas.