Achieving recycling target

IN December last year, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican announced that the country’s national recycling rate (NRR) had risen to 31.52% in 2021 from 30.7% in 2020.

At this rate, it will hover around 35% by 2025. This is disappointing because this ministry had previously set a NRR target of 40% by 2025, and national recycling programmes had started in 1993.