Showing papers on "Household hazardous waste published in 2020"

Identifying sustainable solid waste management barriers in practice using the fuzzy Delphi method

Abstract: Solid waste management leads to resource loss and limited waste management approaches. Nevertheless, solid waste management must be studied in terms of sustainability by both academicians and practitioners. There are barriers to understanding and challenges to maintaining sustainable solid waste management practices. Hence, this study collects a set of attributes, including seven aspects and 146 barriers, from the existing literature. The barriers are the cause of poor sustainable solid waste management performance in practice due to limited resources. Hence, this study aims to identify the major barriers presented as qualitative information; however, the attributes need to be transformed into a comparable scale. This study applied the fuzzy Delphi method to acquire valid and reliable attributes through qualitative information. The results show 44 essential barriers to sustainable solid waste management. Four aspects are included: (1) technical difficulties; (2) information sharing and knowledge problems; (3) human resource limitations; and (4) financial and economic problems. The most important barriers are identified as household hazardous waste, insufficient funds for SWM research, local architecture, a lack of staff capability, and a lack of a standard process for data collection and analysis. The theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

Development of Policy and Regulations for Hazardous Waste Management in Malaysia

Abstract: Managing hazardous waste is a challenging and demanding task, especially in terms of its implementation and monitoring. Malaysia has had policies and regulations on the management of hazardous wastes for the past 30 years and it is constantly in need of improvement and renewal in line with the changing times and technologies involved in producing these hazardous wastes. This study is related to the proposal to improve policies and regulations related to hazardous waste, especially to household hazardous waste. The study begins by looking at previously implemented policies and related issues as well as paving the way for developing a new policy and regulations to address the challenges associated with hazardous waste that do not yet have policies and regulations in place. Qualitative research was conducted by examining previous documents related to hazardous waste, interviews, surveys and group discussions held in workshops and seminars related to this topic. All the data and information obtained is carefully analyzed and formulated to serve as a guide to formulate policies and regulations regarding hazardous waste in the future for Malaysia.