Solid Waste Composition and Quantification at Taman Melewar, Parit Raja, Batu Pahat

Soft Soil Engineering International Conference 2015

Kadir, A.A.^1 ; Abidin, S.S.S.Z.^1

Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Johor Batu Pahat

86400, Malaysia^1

关键词: Household hazardous waste;    Household waste generations;    Residential areas;    Solid waste generation;    Waste collection;    Waste composition;    Waste generation;    Waste production;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/136/1/012047/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/136/1/012047

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The poor management of solid waste is noticeable through the increasing of the solid waste each year and the difficulties in disposing the waste in the current available landfill. This study was undertaken to analyze the quantity and composition of waste generation in Taman melewar. Taman Melewar is a student residential area and this study is focusing on student's daily waste composition. The objective of this study was to identify the amount of solid waste generation, analyze and classify the composition of solid waste in Taman Melewar. The waste collection was conducted for 50 houses on a daily basis for two weeks. The average household waste generation rate was 0.082 kg/person/day. Organic waste was the major constituent of waste production. The average of organic waste represents about 72.4% followed by paper (9%), plastics film (5.5%), plastics rigid (4.7%), napkins (3.8%), tetrapek (1.3%), glass (1.1%), household hazardous waste (0.85%), textiles (0.52%), metal (0.51%) and rubber (0.34%). The moisture content was ranging from 27.67% to 28.68%. An evaluation was made based on student's behavior towards waste production and recycling. In conclusion, the results revealed that organic waste is the highest waste generated and recycling habits is also poor in Taman Melewar.