News related to waste management and waste industries in Malaysia
EVERY day, tonnes of food is thrown away in the administrative capital of Putrajaya, equivalent to the load of a 32-tonne truck. To reduce the amount of waste in landfills, Putrajaya Corporation (PPj) introduced a pilot project in 2009 to turn food waste into plant fertiliser. From an environmental point Read more…
PETALING JAYA: More hotels in the city centre are participating in food rescue programmes by donating surplus food not served at the buffet line to feed the needy. Food Aid Foundation operations director Hayati Ismail said cooked food rescued from hotels was re-purposed or re-engineered into different menus before being Read more…
WASTE management company KDEB Waste Management Sdn Bhd has promised to solve the irregular rubbish collection problem in the Selayang municipality in two months’ time. Its general manager, Ramli Mohd Tahir, said the company would give Selayang Municipal Council 32 compactors in addition to the existing 12 to put an Read more…
Beijing now incinerates the majority of its unsorted household rubbish to address its sprawling landfills and as a more environmental friendly way to treat waste, city authorities said. At least 60% of the city’s household waste is now incinerated or is treated, compared with just 30% in 2013, said Sun Read more…
Hundreds of abandoned coal mine pits in Borneo reflect institutional failures and utter neglect from owners. And now, the life and health of surrounding communities are at stake. A vast pool of dark green water, about the size of a football field, sits roughly 25 meters from Elementary School 033 Read more…
Landfill Training Workshop Brochure WMAM Landfill Training Workshop 2017 registration form
Greetings from the Waste Management Association of Malaysia! We are pleased to inform that WMAM will be organizing the 4th Waste Management Association of Malaysia (WMAM) Annual Conference on the 6th & 7th April 2017 with the theme “Holistic Waste & Market Potential in Asia Pacific”. Holistic Waste Management looks Read more…
Stay tuned for more information about the Congress!
SINGAPORE: It took four hours of “intensive” firefighting by 200 Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) firefighters to extinguish an enormous fire involving chemical waste and flammable materials at a waste management plant on Thursday morning (Feb 23). At the height of the fire, a total of 38 SCDF emergency vehicles, Read more…
BEING a Klangite (and a proud one, I may add), any little news article on the royal town catches my eye. The news that’s been doing its rounds on social media is of course the recent crocodile sighting in Sungai Klang. The thought of any fish surviving, let alone crocodiles, Read more…