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INTRODUCTION
Human has used the resource from the earth to ease their life and left the leftover
to become waste. Mankind depends on the environment to sustain their lives. While waste
is generated daily, the disposal of the waste is still distressing. The amount of sanitary
landfill still cannot accommodate the amount of waste generated that has been increasing
in time to time. This is due to the increasing in population and development, thus increasing
in waste generation and demand of energy consumption per capita is also increasing
(Zaman et al., 2017). In fact, currently Malaysia has produced about 23,00 tonnes of waste
daily and it is expected to rise to 30,000 tonnes per day in 2020. There are many ways to
reduce the waste, for example recycle. Since the ancient time, in agricultural practices,
farmer will recycle solid waste for fertiliser or fuel values. Even though the indication of
recycling may seem primitive during the ancient day, it is still considered sensible given
they can reproduce and reuse the solid waste generated for better use. Solid waste can
be defined as all solid or semisolid materials that considered no value to retain. The term
solid waste can be further specified as all the wastes arising from human and animal
activities that are discarded as unwanted and normally it is in solid form.
Expose the students with the real situation of solid waste and initiatives made by
MBSA to overcome it.
The separation of waste program is an initiative made by MBSA to reduce the waste
generation specifically in Shah Alam area. Waste separation is a process of separating
waste with recyclable material which aimed to reduce the waste generation from home
specifically in Shah Alam. This program is organised to ensure Shah Alam is consistently
in clean, unstained and unpolluted city. Besides, this program is expected to raise
awareness of Shah Alam citizen on the advantages of recycling practices.
3.1. Scope of Work
Jabatan Pengurasan Sisa Pepejal dan Perkhidamtan Awam, Majlid Bandaraya Shah
Alam not only provides service on solid waste management, but also many other
services that related to their scope of work
Environment control
Law enforcement
Waste generated in Shah Alam is reduced along with waste disposed at landfill
site.
In fact, according to MBSA, Malaysia has the lowest percentage of recycling which is
only 10% % compared to Singapore and Germany which are 57% ang 66 %
respectively. Therefore, as stated before, this program helps to raise awareness of
recyclings benefits in order to increase the recycling percentage.
Figure 1: Brochure of "Public Cleaning Service