WASTE-TO-ENERGY (WTE): A WAY FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES TO SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Construction waste generation nowadays becoming a pressing issue in Malaysia with the high numbers of the construction project, which increased rapidly due to ‘Malaysia Plan 2020’ in the recent years. Although Malaysia Government had introduced few ways in managing the construction waste, still some of it was reportedly either ending up at the open landfill or worsen when it is illegally dumped in the forest or by the roadside. The urgency was need to tackle this issue by providing more alternative method. One of the alternative methods that seen to provide the solution with benefits is Waste-to-Energy (WtE). This technology had been proved by several countries such as China and Europe in reducing the waste-to-landfill problem. A few years back, Malaysia had announced to launch the plant for the WtE but somehow the result from the preliminary study resulted that plant had closed due to the reason of low source of the waste. Therefore, this study intended to explore the probability of construction waste to become one of the sources for the WtE generation. This will lead into solving two problems in future, which were construction waste problem and the low source of waste for the WtE generation.