Thursday, August 26, 2010

Recycle For A Better Future

SOME FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RECYLE IN MALAYSIA


  1. Malaysia is among the countries that has a high rate of waste generation.
  2. Each Malaysian throw away an average 0.8 kg of waste daily.
  3. Malaysian generates around 15,000 tonnes of waste every day.
  4. The amount of waste is expected to increase by 2% every year.
  5. Malaysia spends more than 4 million just to import more than 25,000 tonnes of waste paper every month to make recyling possible.
  6. Malaysia have about 230 landfills where 90% are open landfills and the remaining 10% are sanitary landfills. Almost 80% of these landfills are about to expire 2 years from now.

WHAT WE CAN RECYLE?

  • PAPER
    All coloured and non-coloured paper such as newspaper,magazines, books, paper scraps (A4,A3 and F4 sizes), catalogues,pamphlets calendars, cards, envelopes and carbon boxes.

  • ALUMINIUM
  • All type of aluminium and steel cans like drink and food cans.

  • GLASS
  • All coloured and non-coloured glass like drink bottles,food jars, vitamin and cosmetic bottles.

  • PLASTIC
  • All coloured and non-coloured plastics like shopping bags, supermarket bags, drink plastics bottles, mineral water bottles, food containers, detergent bottles and vitamin container.

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