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Food Waste Management

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Food waste can be classified into 3 categories, which as food losses, unavoidable food waste and avoidable food waste. Food waste disposal is categorised under disposal of solid waste, which under the Malaysia Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Act 2007 (Act 672) (Lim et al., 2016). Malaysia authority is facing strenuous challenges in food waste handling and treatment.
It was reported that Malaysia had a total of 170 waste disposal sites with only 14 of the disposal sites had “sanitary landfill” status up to 2016. Waste segregation has not been implemented in Malaysia. Thus, food waste is the main constituent that made up of municipal solid waste (MSW) where it was disposed to the landfill together with other waste. The preferred MSW …show more content…

It is the most effective means of dealing with various types of wastes. This type of combustion-based process for MSW is subject of intense debate around the world. Dangerous pollutants such as dioxins may emit into air, land and water which may affect human health and environment in the absence of effective controls. Although incineration coupled with material and energy recovery that can form an essential part of an integrated waste management system, yet strict controls need to be implemented as well so as to prevent the negative impacts (Zainu and Songip, 2017).
Another challenge that was faced during food waste management is the availability of waste collection centre. Waste collection almost covers all communities in urban areas but only about 66% of the populations in rural areas are covered. Thus, the solid waste including food waste is being dumped on the streets and drains. In addition, many of the people will burned the solid waste. Thus, this contributes to the air pollution problem and disease spreading problem (Samsudin and Don, …show more content…

Around RM 15.00 is the cost of municipal waste management (MWM) services per premise while privatization of the MWM had cost the Malaysian Government more than RM 300 million. Capital Expenditure (Capex) for a new landfill will be more than RM 30 million in average. An average of RM 30 to RM40/ tonne is the cost of operating expenditure. As a result, most of the local authorities will be incapable of absorbing the high cost expenditure (Zainu and Songip,

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