Taking the perspective of a future engineer, propose one thing that your country (people and/or government) can do to solve the waste disposal problem(s) facing your country this century.
Waste disposal is always a big headache for developing countries around the world, and so it is in Malaysia. The government of Malaysia has encouraged its people to recycle, but the recycling system and machinery that are being implemented by the government are far behind from the optimum efficiency. To deal with the problem, nationwide waste recycling system has to be reorganized to optimize the overall performance of the entire recycling process.
The recycling process starts with the collection of recyclable waste. The government has to provide more active recycling stations, especially in the densely populated areas. Furthermore, these recycling stations have to be maintained in good condition as currently some of the stations are in a bad operating condition and hence, abandoned by the people.
Meanwhile, the currently ineffective recycling process is also due to the lack of awareness in the public. Some of the people are not even aware of the recycle bins despite the bins being placed in public areas in the country. Therefore, the government should educate and attain awareness from the public through mass media in different languages used by different ethnic groups in the country. This is essential to trigger the people’s response so that they will be actively involved in the collection of recyclable waste. The involvement by the people is so crucial that it would eventually lead to the significant reduction of total waste.
As a conclusion, the sufficiency of waste handling technology is not the main challenge faced in the waste handling process in Malaysia. It is the effort and cooperation of the government and people that will finally lead to the success in reducing waste through recycling.
Waste disposal is always a big headache for developing countries around the world, and so it is in Malaysia. The government of Malaysia has encouraged its people to recycle, but the recycling system and machinery that are being implemented by the government are far behind from the optimum efficiency. To deal with the problem, nationwide waste recycling system has to be reorganized to optimize the overall performance of the entire recycling process.
The recycling process starts with the collection of recyclable waste. The government has to provide more active recycling stations, especially in the densely populated areas. Furthermore, these recycling stations have to be maintained in good condition as currently some of the stations are in a bad operating condition and hence, abandoned by the people.Meanwhile, the currently ineffective recycling process is also due to the lack of awareness in the public. Some of the people are not even aware of the recycle bins despite the bins being placed in public areas in the country. Therefore, the government should educate and attain awareness from the public through mass media in different languages used by different ethnic groups in the country. This is essential to trigger the people’s response so that they will be actively involved in the collection of recyclable waste. The involvement by the people is so crucial that it would eventually lead to the significant reduction of total waste.
As a conclusion, the sufficiency of waste handling technology is not the main challenge faced in the waste handling process in Malaysia. It is the effort and cooperation of the government and people that will finally lead to the success in reducing waste through recycling.
5 comments:
Educating and creating public awareness is very important and should start from a young age... Take Japan for example, recycling is part and parcel of their life... Even different type waste disposal comes in different days...
Hi Guo qi,
Yup, indeed the cooperation between the government and the people is very vital in solving the waste disposal problem.
Without the cooperation of both parties, even with the presence of sophisticated waste disposal machineries and perfect strategies to solve the problem, they will also not work out.
Nice post=)
Ya, I highly agree with your point.
The main thing is Malaysia's government only 'encouraged' but doesn't do anything to raise the awareness.
Hmm... I see those recycling bins here disappear after awhile... Recycling isn't in th eculture here. It seems like Malaysia still have space to dispose her rubbish.
Those campaigns on recycling also disappear after awhile. Maybe the recycling process itself is more expensive than not recycling here, so that's why it's a big turn off after awhile.
it is true that to help the whole world solo play doesn't help only team play than we can make a big different.
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