Compared to 25 years ago, awareness of environmental issues among the public and businesses in Malaysia has increased significantly, with more environment-related terminologies and concepts being introduced, from “reduce, reuse, recycle (3R)” to “sustainable development”, and now “ESG” and “circular economy”.
The mainstreaming of these concepts across all businesses is particularly important to ensure that business entities play their part in caring for the environment while generating profits or wealth from their operations.
Similarly, from the Government’s perspective, significant progress has been made in many areas, with numerous comprehensive plans, guidelines, policies, blueprints and regulations developed over the past few decades.
Ironically, despite these advancements, many people may not be aware that there are a total of 136 waste disposal sites across the country, nearly 85% of which are still non-sanitary or open dumpsites.
