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KUALA LUMPUR: The Department of the Environment (DoE) has denied the granting of exclusive rights to “Scheduled Wastes in Prescribed Facilities” (PYDT BT) to handle scheduled wastes in the country.
Its CEO, Norlin Jaafar, said that the Department of Energy had so far authorized scheduled waste treatment and disposal facilities across the country that included 406 facilities (PYDT BT) and 343 carriers.
“This is to ensure that scheduled waste management is effective and complies with the requirements of the Environmental Quality Act of 1974.
“All industries that produce scheduled waste must properly manage it in terms of notification, characteristics, storage, labeling, inventory and information movement,” he said today in a statement.
Norlin said that waste management must be recorded in the Electronic Information System for Scheduled Waste in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Quality (Scheduled Waste) Regulations 2005.
Yesterday the news went viral on social networks in which it is stated that several companies have been granted exclusive rights to collect scheduled waste and that these companies impose high rates on premises that require the service.
Norlin also emphasized that the Department of Energy is not involved in setting the price, and the costs imposed on the facility owners had been set by the companies that had been licensed.
She said that the exclusive rights granted by the government had been to Kualiti Alam Sdn Bhd to operate the “Centralized Integrated Programmed Waste Management Center”, which was for 15 years from March 1, 2000 to February 28, 2015 .
The government plans to build five integrated waste management facilities in Johor, Perak, Terengganu, Sabah and Penang to ensure better and more efficient management of scheduled waste, he added.
