Abstract
Effective waste management through municipal solid waste (MSW) composition study is important for numerous reasons, including the need to estimate material recovery potential, to identify sources of component generation, to facilitate design of processing equipment, to estimate physical, chemical, and thermal properties of the waste and to maintain compliance with Malaysian Environmental Quality Act1974. The scope of this study focuses on the segregation of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the residential hostel in Universiti Teknologi Mara Sarawak (UiTMS). The resultant demonstrates that plastics, organic, papers and polystyrene pack constitute the highest component in the hostel MSW. Among these components, plastics come on the first place, whereby it constitutes 35.35% of the total MSW, followed by organic or food waste at 27.8%, papers at 16.13% and polystyrene pack at 11.95%. This paper concludes that integrated solid waste management should be implemented for the effective solid waste management in UiTMS. Proper mix of alternatives and technologies such as waste combustion (incineration), land filling and recycling are being proposed due to main composition to be wastes from plastics, foods and papers. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n10p640
Highlights
Municipal Solid Waste Management is a national critical issue in our country today
The scope of this study focuses on the segregation of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the residential hostel in Universiti Teknologi Mara Samarahan (UiTMS) as there is no data regarding on the amount of waste being generated daily
According to Kathirvale et al (2003), food, paper and plastics are the main components of the Malaysian MSW, which make up approximately 80% of the waste by weight
Summary
Municipal Solid Waste Management is a national critical issue in our country today. One of the issues is regarding the shortening life span of landfills in Malaysia due to intensifying solid waste generation by the rapid the growth of human population. An important point for the success of a waste management plan is the need for accurate and up to data on the quality and quantity of the waste that is generated in the area. With this data, proper management strategies can be planned by top management of UiTMS and put into action, notwithstanding the fact that this data could be used to predict the future trends in the quantity and quality of the MSW of the residential hostel in UiTMS. Hand sorting will be used for classifying the collected wastes into the following categories: plastics, paper, metals, aluminium, leather–wood–textiles– rubbers, organic wastes, non-combustibles and miscellaneous according to ASTM D 5231 - 92: Standard Test Method
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