Plastic Waste Statistics In Malaysia

The basel convention plays a huge role in regulating waste disposal by other countries in malaysia.

Plastic waste statistics in malaysia. Malaysian town covered in 19 000 tons of plastic waste reports business insider. Malaysia s nationwide no plastic bag campaign day every saturday and similar such campaigns elsewhere in the country are unfortunately a knee jerk response to our country s waste management. Plastic waste generation is strongly influenced by primary plastic use but also the product lifetime. Performance of water supply.

Plastic waste piled outside an illegal recycling factory in jenjarom kuala langat malaysia. It is estimated that malaysia produced almost one million tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste in 2010 of which 0 14 to 0 37 million tonnes may have washed into the oceans. Malaysia has repatriated 3 737 metric tonnes of plastic waste to mainly rich countries since the third quarter of 2019 the country s environment minister said. Malaysia flooded with plastic waste to send scrap back to source reports japan times.

Annual economic statistics 2018 water supply. You will find more infographics at statista. Malaysia could do a lot better when it comes to plastic pollution. Thursday 28 february 2019 1200.

So despite singapore s greater use of plastic shopping bags per capita than malaysia s singapore s mismanaged plastic wastes per capita are actually 28 times lower than that for malaysia s. Lai seng sin reuters a small town in malaysia is teeming with nearly 19 000 tons of plastic waste. Malaysia is a significant source of plastic waste in our oceans. Sewerage waste management and remediation activities for 2017 registered a 8 1 per cent growth in value of gross output to rm14 4 billion as compared to 2015.

Sewerage waste management remediation activities. I came across these charts recently on statista the statistics portal for market and consumer data. This is in contrast to building and construction where plastic use has a mean lifetime of 35 years. Malaysia seriously has a.

Packaging for example has a very short in use lifetime typically around 6 months or less.