ABSTRACT

One of the contributors in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission is from the waste sector which
includes municipal solid waste (MSW) and wastewater is not maintained well. In Malaysia, the
contributions of GHG from waste sector are 18.64% and 11.83% in year 1994 and 2000
respectively. The global waste sector contribution to GHG is only 3% in year 2004. This
disparity indicates that there are potential mitigation efforts to reduce the GHG from waste sector
for Malaysia. Integrated MSW management provides an avenue to achieve sustainable
development in Malaysia by allowing economic growth without jeopardizing the environment.
This paper looks into the efforts about efficiency, function and advantages to manage the waste
by incineration process. This paper also studies the awareness of student to do the recycle
process at Murni Residential Collage. The recycling rate in Malaysia is reported as 5 %. This is
low compared to other countries such as Philippines which has 23% recycling rate in 2003. To
complete this research, questionnaire and article has been distributed and reviewed to get the
related information and to complete this task. By questionnaires, a few questions have been
asked to respondent. The result from the questionnaire and information gained from the journal
article indicates that the incineration process can reduce the waste volume and demand for
landfill space year by year. By referring the respondent, most of them concern about the
management of waste materials. The challenges are changing public behavior and attitude
towards recycling, generation of waste, sorting out and decomposed of waste at source. It is
imperative for the government to implement the incineration method to decomposed Solid Waste
and improved the awareness of recycling process by promotion in order to achieve GHG
abatement in Malaysia. Incineration plants and recycling process the best paired to process the
waste.
Keywords: recycling, municipal solid waste, decomposed, greenhouse effect (GHG), incineration