Assessing Problems and Prospects of Solid Waste Management in Malaysia

Jereme, Innocent A.; Siwar, Chamhuri; Begum, Rawshan Ara; Talib, Basri Abdul; Alam, Md. Mahmudul

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“…Among the programmes undertaken by the Malaysian government to deal with waste management are 'waste separation at source' and 'technology for the waste to energy initiatives at industry'. The Solid Waste and Public Cleanliness Management Act 2007 provides deals with issues related to public cleanliness and proper hygiene (Jereme et al 2015). Alongside these initiatives, the government has launched a massive education and public awareness campaign to educate the public on the government's waste-segregation programmes.…”

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Case Study: Malaysia. Recognising Green Skills in Non-formal Learning Settings

Ismail

Suhairom

Musta’mal

et al. 2022

Education for Sustainability

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This chapter analyses the results of a study on recognition, validation and accreditation (RVA) of non-formal and informal learning outcomes based on interviews with staff from five enterprises, two in the automotive sector, two in catering services and one in PVC manufacturing. Both formal and informal enterprises were interviewed. Interviews with the enterprises across three sectors showed that most employers in both formal and informal enterprises were not familiar with the term ‘green skills’. However, they were aware of environmental policies and regulations related to their respective sectors, and they encouraged the implementation of certain green practices in their enterprises by creating awareness among staff, promoting attitudinal changes, monitoring compliance with rules and regulations as well as integrating green skills into staff training programmes and RVA. Findings highlighted the importance of the need for employers to have guidelines on how enterprises can affect environmental sustainability. Results of the study also showed the centrality of the role of stakeholders—including both public and private enterprises as well as NGO sectors, consumer associations and government departments—in pushing for the inclusion of green skills in staff training and RVA mechanisms.

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Case Study: Malaysia. Recognising Green Skills in Non-formal Learning Settings

Ismail

Suhairom

Musta’mal

et al. 2022

Education for Sustainability

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“…All the sources solid waste can be classified into food waste, plastics, paper, glass and metals. Reference [4] have reported that the waste material is increased eventually from 18,000 tonnes to more than 30,000 tonnes per day by the year 2020 which generated in Peninsular Malaysia. The waste material is carried through the several recycle processes; some are reused back as construction material or other material and some are delivered to landfill area which classified as limited area and produced a lot of environmental problems.…”

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Mechanical Behaviour of Mortar Made with Washed Bottom Ash as Sand Replacement

Muda¹

2019

IJETER

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Bottom ash (BA) is a waste material which found from the electrical power plant whether collect from a boiler or landfill area. While, mortar is a construction material which incorporated between sand, cement and water. There are a lot of problems such as environmental impact and limited sources of raw material which able to solve by using waste material as a sand replacement in mortar. Thus, BA is selected and treated with fully submerging in the water to recognise as washed BA. The process is used for minimised the carbon content of the BA. Washed BA is utilised in a mortar with 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% of sand replacement and compared the result with control mix (0%) of sand replacement. The mortar design mix proportion is depended on cement to sand ratio of 1:3 with 0.55 of water-cement ratio. There are two testings, workability for fresh condition and compressive strength for hardening condition of the mortar is done. As a result, the height of the slump is reduced with increasing of the sand replacement in mortar. Additionally, the maximum load and compressive strength of the mortar is also decreased when the washed BA as a sand replacement added. Lastly, the specimen with 15% of sand replacement of washed BA is the best mortar mix which provided reasonable compressive strength and workability for further study.

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“…Waste paper is a combustible and post-consumer waste that is usually disposed in a trash bin before being piled up on land. Currently, waste paper is the second-highest municipal solid waste collected in Malaysia behind organic waste (47%), which is around 15% (Jereme et al, 2015). As a current practice, waste paper is recycled for further use in the manufacturing of new fibrous products such as low-grade paper and board (Hietala et al, 2018).…”

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Reinforcement Materials in Poly((R)-3-Hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-Hydroxyhexanoate Bionanocomposite

Yasim-Anuar¹,

Sharip²,

Megashah³

et al. 2020

JST

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Waste paper is the second-highest municipal solid waste collected in Malaysia and as current practice, it is recycled for further use in the manufacturing of low-grade products. Instead of continuously utilizing waste paper for low-grade products manufacturing, it can be used as a feedstock to produce high bioproducts such as cellulose nanofiber (CNF). Hence, this study explored the potential of waste paper as a feedstock for CNF production. The waste paper was subjected to a different number of cycles of wet disk milling (WDM): 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 cycles. The presence of nano-sized cellulose was confirmed by FE-SEM micrographs, where CNF with diameter size 20 – 40 nm was formed after 10 cycles of milling. It was also revealed that the obtained CNF possessed appropriate properties as a reinforcement material. The tensile strength and Young’s modulus of poly((R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co- (R)-3-hydroxyhexanoate (PHBHHx) increased by 19 and 12%, respectively after the reinforcement of 1% CNF. Overall, this study portrays that waste paper could be utilized as a raw material for CNF production, without the need for chemical pretreatment.

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Assessing Problems and Prospects of Solid Waste Management in Malaysia

Cited by 13 publications

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Case Study: Malaysia. Recognising Green Skills in Non-formal Learning Settings

Case Study: Malaysia. Recognising Green Skills in Non-formal Learning Settings

Mechanical Behaviour of Mortar Made with Washed Bottom Ash as Sand Replacement

Reinforcement Materials in Poly((R)-3-Hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-Hydroxyhexanoate Bionanocomposite

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