Abstract
In Malaysia, two critical issues are identified in waste management: (i) lacking of readiness towards recycling and (ii) segregating. If not properly managed, it leads to massive waste generation at the landfill. Uncontrollable massive waste generation in landfill has various negative impact towards the community. For this reason, this project aims to investigate the household readiness towards waste segregation in one of the cities in Malaysia, Kuantan. The project employs 364 houses for sampling, but only 283 give the response and are willing to participate in this project. This project has two main findings: i) waste generation for each residential area, and statistics on readiness of household towards waste segregation. In conclusion, this project anticipates that only very few numbers of households that are participating in waste segregation. This situation reflects the current scenario in Malaysia. This number only came from one of the cities in Malaysia. With this limited study within limited area of research, this project notes that lacking of readiness would not help the government, or related agencies to make it success of waste segregation project. In fact, this project is crucial for the purpose of sustainable development goals.
Highlights
Malaysia, with an area of 330,803 km and has a population of approximately 32,344,164 as of March 27, 2019 (Malaysia Population, 2019)
Malaysian generated average of 38,000 tons of solid waste daily and out of these 38000 tons, only 24% were recycled 76% went to landfill (Lim, 2018) and estimated to continue increase by the year 2020
The data were collected from 283 house. This respond due to some houses locate their waste bin inside the house and no one in the house, data cannot be collected from that particular houses. The result for this preliminary study divided into two categories: 1) Waste generation for each residential area 2) Statistics on readiness of household towards waste segregation
Summary
With an area of 330,803 km and has a population of approximately 32,344,164 as of March 27, 2019 (Malaysia Population, 2019). Malaysia has three distinct ethnic groups Malays, Chinese, and Indians It describes that Malaysia’s number population is on rise and has diversity in culture. Malaysian generated average of 38,000 tons of solid waste daily and out of these 38000 tons, only 24% were recycled 76% went to landfill (Lim, 2018) and estimated to continue increase by the year 2020. These statistics reveal that the behaviour of recycling and segregating are connected. If these two behaviours (recycling and segregating) do not exist, leads to massive waste generation in landfill
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