First of all, the three-stream collection system shoud be introduced in Malaysia. Acccording to Collins.J (2002), this method is currently used in those high-achieving cities, such that waste being seperated into organics, dry recyclables and tricky residual. From there, we can make use of these wastes accordingly. For instance, orgainic waste may be used in producing fertilizer or even generates electricity. By the means of advanced technology, hydrocarbon which is the main composition among organic waste may be extracted from organic waste and then used as fuel to generate electricity, while the remaining residual may still be used as the raw material of fertilizer.
Meanwhile, dry recyclables will be sent to a collecting center and be further seperated to paper, plastic, metal, etc. These valuable resources will be sent to respective recyling center for direct recycling purpose. At the same time, the tricky residual, which composed by mainly chemical ingredient, should be handled carefully. Unlike the dry recyclable waste, most tricky residual can not be recycled. Hence, they should be chemically treated until they do not pollute the environment when disposed.
Also, according to Collins.J (2002), New Zealand is quite successful in the zero waste ambition. Malaysia should send a team there to learn their way of disposing waste, and apply what is practical to fit Malaysia's needs. It is always better to learn from other who is more experience, especially the succeed one.
Despite the technology used, what Malaysia really needs to learn is how to educate its people. This highly efficient way of disposing waste can't be used as long as people there do not take the initiative to seperate the waste themselves.
Source: Collins.J (2002, Oct 3rd). Radical plans for waste could herald a big clean-up. The Guardian Weekly. p.25
4 comments:
Hi Boon woei,
Yes, indeed Malaysia's current waste disposal scheme, Landfilling, could only be a short-term solution.
I agree with you that educating the public and creating public awareness are very important. Only with the cooperation between the government and the people, will the country be successful in cooping with the impending waste disposal problem.
Nice post=)
its seem like there still some Malaysian are not very concern about how wastes should be treated.
what i could say is Malaysia has a very long way to go for it to become a very nice country.
I agree with you. Malaysia people need to be educated extensively before this schame can be implemented and to function effectively.
I think maybe Malaysia doesn't have enough talent to solve the waste problem technically. Maybe theey should import foreign talents just like what singapore did.
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