News related to waste management and waste industries in Malaysia
A TEAM has been formed in Perak to educate the public to embrace recycling in order to reduce the use of plastic bags and polystyrene containers. Ipoh City Watch (ICW) President Prof Dr Richard Ng said the main objective of the committee, known as the Perak Action Team for a Read more…
IT is only right to practise good neighbourliness, however, it is tough to practise this when you end up having neighbours who simply lack civic-consciousness. Just like the thieves who appear after dark; some neighbours will sneak out when nobody’s watching and dump their pile of rubbish nearby their neighbour’s Read more…
BUSINESS owners, who dispose of more than their share of rubbish, will be penalised by the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) beginning September. Council president Abdul Hamid Abdul Hussain said many businesses were found to be generating abnormally high quantities of rubbish, more than the cost of collecting and disposing Read more…
Dirty and stinky: Contract workers wading through the waters at the downstream of Batu River in Selangor to clear trash trapped at the log boom. – ROYCE TAN/The Star IPOH: Every second, someone is dumping rubbish into Malaysian waterways and an average of 2,200 tonnes of rubbish is being collected Read more…
2017 ISWA-SWIS COMPETITION ON SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT ESSAY
KUALA LUMPUR: The Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry is open to greater public engagement over the proposed RM800mil incinerator project in Kepong here. Its minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan issued the invitation to help ease fears over the proposal to build the incinerator in Taman Bering after Read more…
Hong Kong According to information on the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department website, waste separation bins have been placed in housing estates and residential blocks since 1998. The three coloured bins for paper, aluminium cans and plastic bottles are usually placed on the ground floor of buildings or designated common Read more…
Dear WMAM Member, It is with great pleasure that WMAM would like to invite you to participate in the CleanEnviro Singapore Summit 2016 in Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Please find the registration form attached in this email and the program itinerary as below: Read more…
ISWA-WMRAS-NEA Seminar on Hazardous Waste 2016