Role of University Community in Managing Scheduled Waste

Malaysia was shocked by an incident involving illegal scheduled waste disposal at Sungai Kim Kim, which has caused environmental and health implications for the communities in Pasir Gudang. In March 2019, the incident caused a major uproar in Malaysia as it impacted a huge number of victims, especia...

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Main Author: Mohd Marzuki, Mohamed
Format: Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2021
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description Malaysia was shocked by an incident involving illegal scheduled waste disposal at Sungai Kim Kim, which has caused environmental and health implications for the communities in Pasir Gudang. In March 2019, the incident caused a major uproar in Malaysia as it impacted a huge number of victims, especially school children. Not long after the incident, 15 drums of sodium cyanide was found to be illegally dumped in an oil palm plantation in Karak. Globally, incidents like these have occurred in Minamata, Japan and Love Canal, United States of America.
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spelling ump-306012021-02-08T13:19:05Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30601/ Role of University Community in Managing Scheduled Waste Mohd Marzuki, Mohamed T Technology (General) TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Malaysia was shocked by an incident involving illegal scheduled waste disposal at Sungai Kim Kim, which has caused environmental and health implications for the communities in Pasir Gudang. In March 2019, the incident caused a major uproar in Malaysia as it impacted a huge number of victims, especially school children. Not long after the incident, 15 drums of sodium cyanide was found to be illegally dumped in an oil palm plantation in Karak. Globally, incidents like these have occurred in Minamata, Japan and Love Canal, United States of America. 2021-01-20 Newspaper NonPeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30601/1/Role%20of%20University%20Community%20in%20Managing%20Scheduled%20Waste.pdf Mohd Marzuki, Mohamed (2021) Role of University Community in Managing Scheduled Waste. UMP News . http://news.ump.edu.my/index.php/experts/role-university-community-managing-scheduled-waste
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url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30601/
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