Another Man’s Trash…

The heart of the matter is that we’ve grown complacent, and that we’ve somehow overlooked the inevitable consequences of a growing global consumption that has been left unchecked. The problem with waste persists despite numerous efforts, and it’s still growing.

According to a news article written by The Star on July 30, 2019 entitled “Generating more waste than ever”, SWCorp’s deputy chief executive officer Dr Mohd Pauze Mohamad Tara revealed that in 2018 alone, Malaysians have already generated a “whopping 38,142 tonnes of waste per day, an increase from 19,000 tonnes of waste a day in 2005” and observes that more than half of that waste was simply sent to sanitary landfills, despite 40 per cent of it being recyclable—and according to a 2020 report on global waste management by the World Bank Group, solid waste management alone has added to an approximate of 1.6 billion carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions.

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