Evolution of solid

waste management

MARFIAH AB.WAHID, PHD.

FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
UITM SHAH ALAM
Lesson Plan
At the end of this topic , student should be able to :
• Understand the past and current situation related with solid waste
management in Malaysia
• Explain the policy related with solid waste management in Malaysia.
• Discuss a few important questions arise related with solid waste
management.
 Introduction
• Solid wastes comprise all wastes arising from human and animal
activities that are normally solid and that are discarded as useless or
unwanted.
• It include Heterogeneous material Such that those come from urban
community and homogeneous material such that material come from
agricultural, industrial and mineral communities.
• Discuss the conventional way of SWM in village and urban area. What
are the problems created from current activity? Village (burning
waste or tanam-air pollution), urban (landfill – risk health)

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• Although nature has the capacity to dilute,
disperse, degrade, absorb, or otherwise
reduce the impact of unwanted residues in the
atmosphere, in the waterways and on the
land, ecological imbalances have occurred
where the natural capacity had been
exceeded.
Rate of waste generation in Malaysia is increasing
due to:
1) Community activities : commercial,
institutional, industrial, markets.
2) Economic level of different sector – squatter,
low, medium and high class residential areas.
3) Type of waste generator and land use.
 PERCENTAGE OF WASTE COMPOSITION (SWCORP, 2012)

50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

FOOD WASTE- makanan yg tidak dihabiskan, makanan yg tamat

D tempoh, penyediaan makanan yg tidak diperlukan.
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Malaysian SWM Policy Evolution Timeline
Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Mgt
Action plan for Act (SWMA)2007(ACT672)
a beautiful and Implementation Sept 2015
clean Malaysia
Malaysia waste SWCorp Strategic
minimization plan Plan(2014-2020)
(2006)

1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

National
SWMCorp
Strategic Plan for
strategic plan
Solid Waste
(2009-2013) Comprehensive mgt plan
Management
(formulated (2015-2020)
2002), adopted
(2005) National Solid Mind transformation
waste mgt plan(2015-2020)
policy(2006)
 Conventional vs sustainable SWM hierarchy

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 • Political science
• City and regional planning
Factors to be • Geography
considered in • Economic
• Public health
the solution • Sociology
may involve: • Demography
• Communications
• Conservation
• Engineering and material science

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Waste generation in UiTM
Campus
 Total Annual Solid Waste Generation in Shah Alam and Puncak Alam Campus

3000.00
2500.00
Total (tonnes)

2000.00
1500.00
1000.00
500.00
0.00
2015 2016 2017 2018
Year

UiTM Shah Alam UiTM Puncak Alam

Total Annual SW Generation

 Total Monthly Solid Waste Generation in Shah Alam Campus
350.00
300.00
250.00
Total (tonnes)

200.00
150.00
100.00
50.00
0.00
Jan Feb Mac Apr May Jun July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dis
Month

2015 2016 2017 2018

Total Monthly SW Generation

 Quantity of Collected E-Waste Items
UiTM Shah Alam (FSKM)
Others 1 Box
Wires (USB, Mouse, Earphone, Headphone 4 Boxes
Stand Fan 3
Fan 11
Rice Cooker 2
Blender 2
Decoder 3
DVD Player 4
Calculator 6
Speaker 6
USB Pendrive 2
Iron 4
Heater 10
Lamp 4
Bulb 25
Mobile Phone Charger 19
Extension / Adapter 15
Controller 6
Power Bank 10
Camera 3
Remote Controller 13
Printer Cartridge 9
Tablet 7
House Phone 6
Mobile Phone 81
Battery 95
Laptop Battery 8
Car Battery 2
Keyboard 5
Power Supply 8
LCD 1
CPU 2
Monitor 2
Printer 17
Hard Disk 4
CD/DVD Drive 2
Laptop 11
 QUESTIONS
• Which elements of society generate the greatest quantities of S.W
and what is the nature of these wastes?
• How can the quantities be minimized?
• How to manage waste in sustainable approach in order to reduce the
consumption of natural resources?