How much waste disposed every year in Malaysia ?

Question

How much waste disposed every year in Malaysia ?

Answer 1

Please be a bit more specific, what kind of waste? Commercial waste or non-commercial, solid or toxic or hazardous?

Below, excerpt from the 9th Malaysian Plan (refer to the pdf link below, from the Prime Minister Dept, EPU)

22.08 Solid Waste.

The amount of solid waste generated in Peninsular Malaysia

increased from 16,200 tonnes per day in 2001 to 19,100 tonnes in 2005 or an average of 0.8 kilogram per capita per day. Solid waste in Malaysia on average consists of 45.0 per cent food waste, 24.0 per cent plastic, 7.0 per cent paper,

6.0 per cent iron, and 3.0 per cent glass and others. Despite concerted efforts to promote reuse, reduction and recycling (3Rs) of materials through the National Campaign on Recycling, the amount of solid waste recycled remained at less than 5.0 per cent of total waste disposed. During the Plan period, the Government opened two sanitary landfills at Seelong in Johor and Bukit Tagar in Selangor, and a transfer station in Taman Beringin, Selangor.

22.09 Toxic Waste. During the Plan period, an average of 430,000 tonnes of scheduled waste was generated per annum. Of the total waste generated in 2004, approximately 18.8 per cent was treated and disposed in the toxic waste

treatment and disposal facility in Bukit Nanas, Negeri Sembilan, 58.0 per cent was recycled and recovered at licensed premises, 19.7 per cent was treated and stored within the premises of generators, 0.7 per cent was exported for recycling and 2.7 per cent was disposed at clinical waste incinerators. The recycling and material recovery from toxic waste registered a significant increase from 29.0 per cent in 2001 to 58.0 per cent in 2004. This led to a decline in toxic waste treated and stored within premises from 59.9 per cent in 2001 to 19.7 per cent in 2004, as shown in Chart 22-1.