A staggering 30,000 tonnes – that’s the amount of waste Malaysians produce on average daily. This figure was disclosed at the National Waste Management Conference 2018 in July. Worse, only 5% of the total waste is recycled.
That means 10.4 mil tonnes of waste makes its way to landfills across the country a year. Selangor alone contributes 7,000 tonnes daily to these saturated disposal areas, which are quickly piling up as sources of land and air pollution.
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