MBSA Solid Waste Master Plan

MBSA Solid Waste Master Plan

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Mayor's Office Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam

Department of Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam

First Floor, Wisma MBSA, Persiaran Perbandaran, 40000 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. Hotline: 1800 88 4477 General Line: 03-5510 5133 Fax: 03-5510 8010 Email: www.mbsa.gov.my Consultant: Meishang Environmental (M) Sdn. Bhd. No. 5-46-2 (1st. Floor), 14, Persiaran Anggerik Vanilla, Kota Kemuning, 40460 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. Tel: 03-5131 9825 / 0825 Fax: 03-5131 9826 Email: [email protected]

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MBSA SWMP  Executive Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................ 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................................................................... 0 FOREWORD ................................................................................................................................. 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................. 5 INITIATION OF THE SWMP .............................................................................................................. 5 VISION OF THE SWMP ..................................................................................................................... 7 The Roof: MBSA’s aspiration for the SWMP................................................................................. 11 The Support Beams: Identification of Cross Component Enablers...............................................11 The Rooms and Walls: Identification of the strategic pillar components ....................................12 The Foundation: Basis of the plan - Identification of the foundation initiative components ......12 SCOPE OF THE SWMP.................................................................................................................... 12 SWMP REVIEW .............................................................................................................................. 14 SHAH ALAM SOLID WASTE SCENARIO .......................................................................................... 15 LOOKING FORWARD ..................................................................................................................... 24 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................................. 30

MBSA SWMP  Executive Summary

FOREWORD Waste . We generate it every single day but how often do we think about it? It has become habitual and apathetic to discard your waste and without any regard or consideration to the consequences. Out of sight, out of mind and invisible to most people who are blissfully unaware of the overall damage caused by the improper management of the waste produced by our consumer society. Shah Alam has the distinction of being Malaysia’s first planned city, inaugurated in 1963, six (6) years after the country’s independence in 1957. In 1978, it became the capital city of Selangor and has since then been awarded city status in 2000 and now covers an area of 293 km 2 with a population of 740,750. The increase in population and economic activities has significantly contributed to the increase in waste. On average, each person in Shah Alam produces more than 576.70 kilograms of waste every year. Over 850 tonnes of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is generated within Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam's (MBSA) jurisdiction. 730 tonnes of this MSW is directly managed by MBSA, and is currently still being sent to the landfill each day and an excess of 23% of the council’s revenue is being spent to manage this issue! The balance of the MSW is handled by private contractors engaged by the waste generators. It has become unfortunately evident that the present traditional approach and common micro- measure focused planning and regulation in waste management have reached their limits. Radical action is necessary to manage waste and the Government, both local and Federal, must play their part by putting systems in place so that waste can be considered as an economic resource, rather than simply a problem. With the aspiration of becoming Asia’s and Malaysia’s model low carbon city by 2030, MBSA is boldly paving the way forward and has committed itself to achieving world class environmental credentials and the progressive sustainability goal of Zero Waste by 2030. This Solid Waste Master Plan (SWMP), together with supplementary detailed Action Plans (AP), sets out our strategy for implementation. Adopting a council centric approach, MBSA’s SWMP shows the significant change of the integrated role of waste management from the sector’s limited scope of dealing with waste to the new task of managing society’s metabolism acting as an interface between the production, distribution and consumption of goods on the one hand, and the environment and climate on the other. To redress the balance in favour of the natural world and in order to fundamentally change the way we think about waste, the SWMP outlines the formative actions in the coming years that will help achieve the Zero Waste target. It recognizes the tremendous environmental and economic opportunities that exist in shifting our mindset and embracing a Circular Economy (CE), a system in which resources are not discarded, but kept in use for longer periods, through reuse and recycling into new products. This is based on a clear hierarchy of the New Waste Management Paradigm (NWMP) with the landfill as only the final option. The SWMP provides an insight into how MBSA will move away from the current over-dependence on landfill, while at the same time maximizing the resources that can be recovered from waste to reduce reliance on finite resources and minimize the impact on the environment. The SWMP also affords a viable potential opportunity to drive performance, innovation and competitiveness, and stimulate economic growth and development in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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