Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia

Throughout man’s history, waste disposal has put great stress in maintaining a clean and healthy green environment. The tremendous increasing amount of solid waste becomes a major challenge for the people and the government in analyzing the national legislations and the international policy framewor...

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Main Authors:	Gamon, Alizaman Dumangcag, Tagaranao, Mariam Saidona
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Innovative Research Publications 2016
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/60761/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/60761/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/60761/1/Waste%20Management%20.pdf

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spelling	iium-607612018-01-03T04:06:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/60761/ Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia Gamon, Alizaman Dumangcag Tagaranao, Mariam Saidona H Social Sciences (General) Throughout man’s history, waste disposal has put great stress in maintaining a clean and healthy green environment. The tremendous increasing amount of solid waste becomes a major challenge for the people and the government in analyzing the national legislations and the international policy framework for an effective control and enforcement measures in handling the waste management. Failure of a state to implement the effective rules, regulations and social policies will lead to numerous environmental hazards. The objective of this paper is to analyze the national legislations and policies in developing the methods necessary to formulate waste management plans in Malaysia. The Solid Waste and Public Cleaning Management (Act 672) came into effect in 2011 and then proceeded by awareness programs to educate people on the 3R concept – reduce, reuse and recycle. This paper attempts to discuss some practical methods introduced by the government, like the so-called “waste-separation scheme” which was implemented in September 2012. This scheme is in accordance with the government declaration of educating the people about going green. At the end, we make some recommendations in reducing the current negative social impact of environmental changes due to an increasing quantity of waste disposal. Innovative Research Publications 2016-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/60761/1/Waste%20Management%20.pdf Gamon, Alizaman Dumangcag and Tagaranao, Mariam Saidona (2016) Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia. International Journal of Innovative Research in Engineering & Management (IJIREM), 3 (3, May 2016). pp. 180-183. ISSN 2350-0557 http://www.ijirem.org/IJIREM/Home.aspx
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description	Throughout man’s history, waste disposal has put great stress in maintaining a clean and healthy green environment. The tremendous increasing amount of solid waste becomes a major challenge for the people and the government in analyzing the national legislations and the international policy framework for an effective control and enforcement measures in handling the waste management. Failure of a state to implement the effective rules, regulations and social policies will lead to numerous environmental hazards. The objective of this paper is to analyze the national legislations and policies in developing the methods necessary to formulate waste management plans in Malaysia. The Solid Waste and Public Cleaning Management (Act 672) came into effect in 2011 and then proceeded by awareness programs to educate people on the 3R concept – reduce, reuse and recycle. This paper attempts to discuss some practical methods introduced by the government, like the so-called “waste-separation scheme” which was implemented in September 2012. This scheme is in accordance with the government declaration of educating the people about going green. At the end, we make some recommendations in reducing the current negative social impact of environmental changes due to an increasing quantity of waste disposal.
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author	Gamon, Alizaman Dumangcag Tagaranao, Mariam Saidona
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title	Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia
title_short	Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia
title_full	Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia
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Legal and social issues in the development of waste management in Malaysia

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