2.

2 WASTE GENERATED IN MALAYSIA

Waste can be categorized into several terms such as agricultural waste,

industrial waste, sewage sludge, municipal solid waste and etc (Hartmann
and Ahring, 2005). A statistics from Solid Waste Corporation of Malaysia
presented in 2015 that food waste in Malaysia reached 15,000 tonnes daily,
which includes 3000 tonnes that is still edible (Malaysia Kini, 2016) and in
2012, it was evident that Malaysians produced 33,000 tonnes of solid
waste everyday and is predicted to exceed the projected production of
30,000 tonnes by 2020 (Siti, 2017). A recent study reported that the
average amount of MSW produced in Malaysia were 0.5-0.8
kg/person/day, which rose up to 1.7 kg/person/day in major cities
(SAKAWI, 2011). A projection shows that waste generation in Malaysia
skyrocketed from 1997 and is forecasted to increase until 2020 (NOOR et
al., 2013). Table 2 depicts the annual waste generation in Peninsular
Malaysia.

Table 2 : MSW generation in Peninsular Malaysia ( in thousands of tons)

(Source: Nuruljannah et al., 2015)