10th ANNUAL WASTE MANAGEMNET

CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

‘WASTE TO OPPORTUNITIES’

19TH July 2012

SIME DARBY CONVENTION CENTRE

KUALA LUMPUR

HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW IN MALAYSIA

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Figure 6.20 Malaysia : The Trend of Scheduled Waste Management from 2007 - 2011

Total Waste Generated Quantity of Waste Recovered Locally & Internationally

Quantity of Waste Managed Under Special Management Quantity of Waste Disposed (KA+Trinekens+Clinical Incinerators)

Evolution towards Excellence in Integrated Waste Management

Current Practice Future Direction

LANDFILL

DISPOSAL

LANDFILL DISPOSAL

TREATMENT

RECOVER

RECYCLE

REUSE

REDUCE

TREATMENT

RECOVER

RECYCLE

REUSE

REDUCE

PARADIGM SHIFT

Waste was once

regarded solely as an unwanted by product

Waste recycling and

resource recovery are now seen as

potential resources

‘Cradle to Grave’ ‘Cradle to Cradle’

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE: General Description

A Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the

environment.

Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) consists of materials that have the potential to harm people, animals and the environment if they are

improperly disposed of.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTES

Regulatory REQUIREMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

(SCHEDULED WASTES)

REGULATIONS 2005

15th August 2005

BASEL CONVENTION on the Control of Transboundary Movements of

Hazardous Wastes and Their

Disposal,1989

5th May, 1992

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (SCHEDULED WASTES) REGULATIONS 2005

SW103 : Waste of batteries containing cadmium and nickel or

mercury or lithium

SW109 : Waste containing mercury and its compound

SW110 : Waste from electrical and electronic assemblies containing components such as

accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass or

polychlorinated biphenyl-capacitors, or contaminated with cadmium, mercury, lead,

nickel, chromium, copper, lithium, silver, manganese or polychlorinated biphenyls

BASEL CONVENTION 1989

A1180 : Waste from electrical and electronic assemblies or scrap containing components such as accumulators and other batteries included on list A, mercury-switches glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass or polychlorinated biphenyl-capacitors, or contaminated with Annex I constituents (e.g cadmium, mercury, lead, PCB) to the extend that they possess any of the characteristics contained in Annex III

A2010 : Glass waste from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glasses

Environmentally sound management of E-WASTE

E-waste may contain hazardous substances such as lead, mercury, PCB, asbestos and CFC’s that pose

risks to human health and the environment;

The amounts of e-waste are growing rapidly, due to the wide use of this

equipment, both in developed countries and in developing

countries;

Contains valuable material that can be recovered as secondary resources to conservation of energy and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Sources of e-waste

Industrial sectors : from electrical and electronic assemblies

Household, commercial areas and institutions: used end of live electrical and electronic goods

Quantity of e-waste generated by INDUSTRIES in Malaysia

2009 : 134,035.70 metric ton

2010 : 163,339.80 metric ton

2011 : 152,722.04 metric ton

Quantity of e-waste generated from the

HOUSEHOLD, COMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONS

2006 : 652,909 metric

ton

2007 : 695,461 metric

ton

2008 : 688,068 metric

ton

E- waste recovery facilities in Malaysia

155 e-waste recovery facilities in Malaysia with the total capacity to

handle more than 24,000 metric ton of e-waste per month.

135 are partial recovery, small and medium size operators engaged in

physical or manual segregation of e-wastes for further processing.

20 full recovery facilities which can process the e-wastes to recover the

precious metals.

Issues of household e-waste management in Malaysia

Collection, segregation and transportation

Environmentally Sound Management Recycling facility

Disposal fee

Legislation and policy

Transboundary movement of e-waste

Managing the informal sectors