Abstract
Municipal solid waste management is a major challenge due to the increase in population and the development of a country. The problems also arise when the lifespan of the landfills available are shorten than estimated. The aim of this study is to determine waste composition at Taman Pura Kencana. The waste collection was carried out for 50 houses on a daily basis. The collection and sorting out method was conducted based on Malaysian Standard MS 2505:2012 and the data collected is recorded. The result showed the moisture content was approximately ranging between 25% – 30%. The density for each waste has been calculated and the result was recorded accordingly. The highest density is metal followed by organic waste, glass, napkins, household hazardous waste, textiles, paper, plastic rigid, plastic film, rubber and tetrapek. The waste collected also were categorized and consisted of food waste/organic (43.75%), paper (17.97%), plastics rigid (13.58%), plastic film (10.62%), napkins (4.43%), glass (3.10%), household hazardous waste (1.68%), metal (1.67%), tetrapek (1.34%) , rubber (0.93%), and textiles (0.92%). Results from the analysis illustrated that waste generation in Taman Pura Kencana may influenced by sudden changes in lifestyles, incomes, household size and also increase of population.
Highlights
Municipal solid waste management (MSW) becomes a great challenge in development plans throughout the world, especially in rapidly growing cities
The waste generation in Taman Pura Kencana may influenced by sudden changes in lifestyles, incomes, household size and increase of population
These have been explained on the variability between the data of the waste composition
Summary
Municipal solid waste management (MSW) becomes a great challenge in development plans throughout the world, especially in rapidly growing cities. The typical solid waste management system practiced in developing country brings many problems such as low collection coverage and irregular collection services, crude open dumping and burning without air and water pollution control and the breeding of vermin and flies. It was reported in 2003, the average amount of municipal solid waste generation per capita per day ranged is between 0.5 to 0.8kg but recently the range has increased 0.5 to 2.5kg, especially in the major cities such as Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya [4]. In 2020, the amount of waste to be generated has been estimated to reach 30000 tons/day [4]
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