A study on municipal solid waste management in Sarawak
Waste has become the main by - products of everyday living in Sarawak. Waste generation and composition are strongly related to the regional socio - economic conditions and also the amount of population in every district in Sarawak. Socio - economic f actors that enable an i...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report / IMRAD |
| Language: | English English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS
2004
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6793/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6793/1/A%20STUDY%20ON%20MUNICIPAL%20SOLID%20WASTE%20MANAGEMENT%20IN%20SARAWAK%2024%20pgs.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6793/7/A%20STUDY%20ON%20MUNICIPAL%20SOLID%20WASTE%20MANAGEMENT%20IN%20SARAWAK.pdf |
| Summary: | Waste has become the main by
-
products of everyday living in Sarawak. Waste
generation and composition are strongly related to the regional socio
-
economic conditions and
also the amount of population in every district in Sarawak. Socio
-
economic f
actors that enable
an increase in the standards of living of the regional economy will influence the per capita
rate of waste generation and the composition of waste generated. The per capita waste
generation may generally increase concurrently with increa
sed standards of living. According
to a Natural Resources and Environmental Board (NREB) research, the total amount of solid
waste generated that a single person generated a day is
estimated an average of 0.67 kg of
waste a day in Sarawak.
Kuching is the m
ost densely populated district in Sarawak and
estimated to grow at a steady rate approximately 2% per year. Municipal Solid Waste
management in Kuching District is primarily the responsibility of the local authorities (LA).
Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (D
BKU), Majlis Bandaraya Kuching Sealatan (MBKS) and
Majlis Perbandaran Padawan (MPP) responsible in the study of solid waste for their
administrative area while Trienekens Sdn. Bhd is the private sector that responsible for
disposing, studying and collectin
g solid waste in Kuching. Results from the increase volume
of solid waste in Kuching, the local authorities have conducted a sanitary landfill system as a
solid waste disposal.The legal facility that is available for disposal of solid waste within the
Kuch
ing city boundaries is the Matang dump site and Kuching Integrated Waste Management
Park at Mambong. From the data acquisition, an alternative design of sanitary landfill will be
produced. All the data are collected from Trienekens Sdn. Bhd, DBKU, MBKS, MP
P, NREB
and DOS.
The data required for alternative design of a sanitary landfill are population of
people in Kuching, propose design life of a landfill, total municipal solid waste generated in
Kuching and amount of municipal solid waste generated by a sin
gle person per day. |
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