Kesediaan isi rumah terhadap program pengasingan sisa pepejal di punca

Abstract

The prosperity of the economy in Johor is booming in line with the launch of Iskandar Malaysia which is also known as South Johor Economic Region have resulted an impact on the urbanization and the migration rate to the urban area which in this case are Johor Bahru and Kulai. The obvious effect were the ever increasing amount of the density of population in a specific area. However the underlying effect was the solid waste management issue. Starting from 1 September 2015, the government through the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government have require the separation at source steps to be execute by all citizen in phases on every state and federal territory of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Pahang, Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Perlis and Kedah. The reason behind this was studies shows that the generation of solid waste in peninsular Malaysia in 2013 was almost 30,000 tonnes to 33,000 tonnes per day, which consist of variety of solid waste compositions such as food balance, plastic, paper, steel, glass and such. This program was adopted from the countries such as Japan in its solid waste management. It was introduce to increase the public participation as a implementation agent and also to promote a clean, secure and prosperous Malaysia . However, there has yet not been any study on the performance of the separation at source program by SWCorp Malaysia. Therefore it is important for the government to acknowledge the performance level so that it will provide an improvement measure for the program hence that it can be adjusted to suit the community in Malaysia.