Recycling In Malaysia Statistic
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Recycling in malaysia statistic. Published by statista research department jul 16 2020 in 2020 85 percent of municipal solid waste in malaysia was dumped in environmentally unsound disposal methods. Swcorp deputy chief executive officer technical dr mohd pauze mohamad taha said that the recycling rate in malaysia last year is only 17 5 despite introducing the waste segregation programme. 2018 the scheduled waste generated in malaysia. Eleven years later 2016 the quantity was 38 200 tons day recycling rate.
Household recycling rate in malaysia is estimated to be at 9 7 in a nationwide survey in 2011. Out of the huge amount waste separation and recycle rate is only at 24 while the remaining 76 goes to the landfill according to housing and local government minister zuraida kamaruddin. 17 174 million litres per day. By comparison the rate of.
On tuesday malaysia s environment minister yeo bee yin announced that 3 000 tonnes of waste sent from around the world would be returned because it was either rotting contaminated or had. This shows that there is still a large portion of solid waste being disposed in landfills and not deviated to recycle he says. Based on a published project report on inventory of e waste in malaysia funded by the ministry of environment japan moej the projection of the total amount of discarded e waste will be increased by an average of 14 annually in malaysia and by the year 2020 a total of 1 17 billion units or 21 38 million tons of e waste will be generated. The same report indicated that kuantan had the highest household recycling rate 18 4 while sabah rest at the lowest with 4 5.
In 2018 79 out of 143 rivers are classified as clean. 2018 volume of water supplied in malaysia. Department of statistics malaysia block c6 complex c federal government administrative centre 62514 putrajaya tel. Malaysia has a recycling rate at just 17 5 percent as a country.
As reported food waste is a major component of generated waste 45 percent and contains high organic compounds.