Be Open to Using Incinerators

Be open to using incinerators ASED on a 2012 report, Most developed countries are pletely rule out the use of incinera about their daily chores with an Malaysia produces about using incinerators to get rid of their tors in other parts of the country incinerator in their backyard with B daily waste along with a strong where landfills may have a poten out any complaint, I wonder why is 33,000 tonnes of solid wasteemphasis on recycling. tial negative impact on air, water there so much fuss and resistance per day and it was projected to The best thing about modern and soil quality. over here. increase at a rate of 3.5% annually. incinerators is that they are designed Landfills have been singled out Despite assurances by the At this projected rate, the dis to mitigate all ldnds of hazardous as one of the major contributing authorities that the incinerators are posal of solid waste in the country, pollution. Apart from this, modern sources of the greenhouse effect. of the latest design and is safe and especially in the cities, if not han incinerators are designed in such a The methane gas released from the environment-friendly, I am puzzled dled professionally, may turn out to way that they can recover energy decaying waste in landfills is chok as to why certain groups are still be a mega stinking problem. from waste combustion. ing and heating up the environ resisting it. Burying the waste in sanitary I am not totally against the use ment. I concur with the views landfills may be economical but it of sanitary landfills. If we can afford Methane gas is said to have the expressed by Urban, Wellbeing and is a crude and primitive method of the land and if it is managed profes ability to trap atmospheric heat 20 Local Government Minister Datuk waste disposal. sionally with minimum impact on times more effectively than carbon Abdul Rahman Dahlan recently that This practice of burying waste in public and environmental health we dioxide. As such, landfills without certain individuals are playing on landfills which stays mummified should continue to use landfills. any mechanism in place to manage people’s emotion using “half-baked for hundreds of years underground As for Kuala Lumpur and this harmful methane gas (trap or facts” which had somewhat influ may be suitable in certain circum Selangor, the Bukit Tagar sanitary harness) should not be permitted to enced the public to resist the build stances, however, for high-density, landfill apparently is said to have operate due to the obvious risk to ing of incinerators in the country. fast-growing cities the use of incin enough space to cater for all the humans and the environment. Whatever it is, the authorities erators has many advantages. waste generated for next 65 years. The authorities should continue should continue to engage the pub Despite the mounting pressure Under these circumstances, it is to educate the public on the useful lic to provide them with the right against the use of incinerators by logical and economical to continue ness and advantages of using incin facts and information and to dispel certain quarters, it must be pointed using the Bukit Tagar sanitary land erators to cater for the ever-increas- any unwanted fears. out that there are now newly fill for the disposal of waste gener ing waste generated in the country. designed ultra-modern environ ated in the Klang Valley. When people in Europe, the S.PARAM mentally safe and friendly incinera However, we should not com United States and Singapore go Ipoh tors in the market..

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