Organic Waste Management in Malaysia

            The material that comes from an animal or a plant and is biodegradable, it is organic waste. Over time, it can be broken and eliminated by other organisms. For the cleanliness and safeness of the environment, materials that don’t disintegrate are not used. Thus, organic waste is used rather than such materials. For example, the disintegration of plastic takes a lot of time and it leaves an imprint as well. For many countries that are still developing, a major issue concerns the organic waste. Unpleasant odors are generated by it and diseases are spread as it helps mosquitoes, bugs, flies, and rats multiply. Organic waste also emits methane while disintegrating which toxic twenty times more than carbon monoxide gas.Chris Kennedy, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, and Daniel Hoornweg also discussed in an article that by 2100, generation of solid waste’s global rate would be triple.

 Paper Waste Management in Malaysia

        Considering the modern environment and age, the use of paper is becoming less. However, it will be a long time until we become independent of it. From our paper wrapping to our books, papers are almost everywhere and countless papers are useless after they are used for the first time. After their first use, they are found in the landfill. Firstly, it was used for communication and now, it is mostly used to package. Paper is produced in twice the energy that it takes a plastic bag to produce.

For the production of paper, one of the biggest issues that concern environment is deforestation.

 Plastic Waste Management in Malaysia

        New plastic’s production was almost 311 billion kilos in 2014. The production rate was only 5 million tons in 1950. Every year, plastic’s production has increased by almost eight percent. During the entire 20^th century, plastic was produced less than the past ten years. Approximately half of that is utilized for the single use and is thrown away just after that. According to the estimation, every year worldwide, plastic bags are used one trillion.Microplastics is also called polyster, acrylic, nylon, and fleece, which can be found in many cosmetics and clothing. While washing, they are releases and considering their small size, they are able to pass easily though many plants. Thus, they are thrown in the river after a long journey. Marine animals could eat these These microplastics just being released when you wash them and they are so small that they could pass through sewage treatment plants, which later being released back to the river then to the sea. Marine animals could eat these microplastics and after a short while, it could be eaten by us.

 Glass Waste Management in Malaysia

        Some of the very few materials that can be recycled many times and still not lose the potential include Glass. Glass is compromised on cullet, limestone, soda ash, and sand. Two common ingredients are cullet and sand which are heated and mixed at temperature 2600-2800 Fahrenheit degrees. It is then molded according to the instructions. In the form of solid waste, glass is found in the form of bottles and jars.

 Metal Waste Management in Malaysia

        There are two types in which metals can be specified. One is non-ferrous and the other one is ferrous. Carbon and iron are combined in the ferrous metals. Common ferrous metals are compromised on cast iron, wrought iron, alloy steel, and carbon steel. Meanwhile, tin, zinc, lead, copper, and aluminium are included in the non-ferrous metals. Palladium, iridium, silver, platinum, and gold are the common metals that are considered precious.

 Hazardous Waste Management in Malaysia

        Household products with toxic elements, unused materials which are discarded are included in the hazardous waste. In the normal garbage, this waste cannot be included. Explosive, Reactive, Corrosive, Flammable, Toxic, Poisonous, Reactive, and Warning are the labels on the materials that are considered hazardous. If the hazardous waste is not disposed properly, it can lead to many potential physical injuries to workers in sanities and affect the water treatment network along with infect the septic tanks.

g. Other Waste Management in Malaysia

Tetra Park – These are the cartons that can be found in the stores for the packaging of liquid materials. Food is actually protected from the contamination due to these containers.

Diapers –If it is about pooping, babies do a lot. A normal baby uses almost six to eight diapers. Every single year, ninety to ninety five percent of American babies poop in 27.4 billion plastic diapers that are thrown away after the first use. Each year, it forms almost 7.6 billion of pounds of garbage. This garbage is sufficient for the filling of 15 times of Yankee Stadium. If disposable diapers are exposed to air and sunlight, it will take hundreds upon hundreds of years for their decomposition. Since they are present in landfills where there is no light and air, the same decomposition would take thousands of years.

Rubber – At the present modern world, products made from rubber are almost everything and only a few people recognize their use in its different aspects. The production of tires is one of the major sectors that use the rubber. In the urban waste streams, rubber waste is available in very minor percentages. From the households, they usually include a small amount of waste products.

Textile – Considering the most important and need consumer goods sector and industry, Textile industry is one of them.  But it also has the charge of being the industry that pollutes the most. US have produced very hardly textile waste’s 5 billion in the waste stream of public in 1980. In 2014, the same amount has risen to almost 32,44 billions of pounds. Actually, this waste is post-consumer textile waste and it contains bedding, towels, accessories, footwear, and clothing. Almost ninety-five percent of the textile waste can be recycled. However, the rate of recycling is only fifteen percent.

Leather – It includes the leather balls, shoes, belts, wallets, clothing, etc.

Ceramic– When it comes to a broad term, ceramic is definitely concerned. There are different terms for it as well such as graphite, diamond, cement, bricks, porcelain, pottery, tiles, and glass. Since they are tough to recycle, the ceramic household items that are damaged, they go to the garbage.