Scheduled Waste Management in Malaysia: An Overview

Noorhidayah Che Jamin; Noor Zalina Mahmood

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1113.841

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Scheduled Waste Management in Malaysia: An Overview

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Industry has become an essential part of modern society, and waste production is an inevitable outcome of the developmental activities. A material becomes waste when it is discarded with impunity and may pose a potential hazard to the human health or the environment (soil, air, waste) when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed off or managed. In other words, scheduled waste contributes a major share towards environmental degradation. Scheduled and hazardous waste is the most difficult waste to be managed due to the dangerous elements not only for the environment but also for public health. In Malaysia, in the last two decades, the waste management has been a major concern. Malaysia has developed a comprehensive set of legal provisions related to the management of toxic and hazardous wastes. In this work, an evaluation of the scheduled waste management in Malaysia is made: in term of legislation framework, type of wastes and waste volume production.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1113)

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Noorhidayah Che Jamin*, Noor Zalina Mahmood

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Hazardous Waste, Scheduled Waste, Scheduled Waste Management

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