Household Waste Management In Malaysia

Household waste is something that we cannot get enough with neither get away from it and it has become crucial day by day especially in developing country. Thus, it is compulsory to have household waste management in our country. This paper discusses how household waste in Malaysia can be converted into vermicompost for use in plantations and agriculture as one of the solution of the household waste and also focussing on environmental protection. Moreover, vermicompost may reduce the amount of organic waste in the country and help to maintain a clean and fresh environment. It also can reduce emission of methane gas which causes global warming and greenhouse effect. Besides, vermicompost is an environment friendly organic fertilizer that can

As the population in the world is increasing, the amount of solid waste generation is also increasing in a tremendous amount. However, the increasing of population is not the only factor of the huge amount of the waste. Improper waste management also contributing to the piling of waste such as weak enforcement, lack of technology, ineffective policy and implementation of policy, deficiency in technologies and facilities to cope with the ever-increasing rate of waste generation. Moreover, the urban population is generating more organic waste than the rural population in Malaysia. This is because, the rapid development of urban areas, increase in per-capita income, rural-urban migration and also lifestyle

Hence, when the generation of household waste increased, the frequency of collection and also disposal sites also increased, so that the organic waste did not cause harm to the health of people. Therefore, the government of Malaysia delegated waste management to four private consortia. Privatization of urban solid waste management is believed in providing an integrated, effective, efficient and technologically advanced solid waste management system. However, in 1993 local authorities faced some problems such as finance, lack of expertise, illegal dumping, open burning and a lack of proper solid waste disposal sites. Therefore, privatization is happened not to be the best solution of household waste management. Moreover, Malaysian government actively doing campaigns from time to time to make people aware of environmental health. Action Plan for a Beautiful and Clean (ABC) Malaysia, and recycling campaigns has been introduced back then in 1988 and successfully gaining awareness of environmental health from local people. Furthermore, the leachate from the rotting organic waste at landfill contaminating rivers and seas which it will produce diseases and they are not safe to be consuming. Besides, 20% of organic waste is burned which lead to air pollution. Therefore, Malaysian government approached other ways in order to manage the waste such as incineration plant. However,