Phee Boon Poh
State Exco for Welfare Caring
Society & Environment
31 March 2014

OVERVIEW• Global Commitments• Penang’s Environmental Policy• Targets• Local Action• Strategies 1 – Activities• Strategies 2 - Activities• Strategies 3 - Activities• Strategies 4 – Activities• Challenges• Conclusion

GlobalEnvironmentalCommitments• Prime Minster of Malaysia, Datuk
Seri Najib Tun Razak , delivered
Malaysia's proposal to reduce its
CO2 emission's to 40 per cent by
the year 2020 compared with its
2005 levels, subject to assistancefromdevelopedcountries.
Copenhagen, Denmark. 17 Dec
2009.,• National Recycling target of 20%
by 2020

Penang’s
EnvironmentalPolicy• The Penang Government iscommitted to the transformationof Penang State’s economic,
social and cultural development
so as to improve the quality oflife of its citizens throughenvironmentally sound andsustainable principles based on
the CAT principle.
• Competency• Accountability• Transparency.

FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP OF STAKEHOLDERS IN
PENANG’S ISWM SYSTEM

GOVERNMENTLegislation
Infrastructure
Solid Waste Disposal
Public Awareness & Education
Resource Recovery
CompostingIncentivesWaste Audits

INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT(ISWM)COMMUNITY
Practice 3Rs
Community Recycling
Source Separation
CompostingTowards

PRIVATE SECTOR

Zero Waste

 Green Productivity
Eco-friendly productsExtended Producer Responsibility(EPR) – Buy Back Programmes
Recycling Agents
Buyers
Processors
Convertors

CHALLENGES• Overlapping portfolios –Environment & SWM• Grey areas of Responsibilities• Need to streamline an coordinate formore efficient handling• Clear policy direction for balanced
development to benefit future needs• Protect environmental resources• Local authorities to coordinate withother agencies

• Make changes towards realising environmental
importance and sustainability in growing Green
Economy supported by strong political willleadership.
• Appropriate action reflected in policy changes
and programmes, especially from the State
Government towards ecological sustainability &food security

3. Changing Mindsets
Moving towards Changing Mindsets• Awareness• Education• Attitude Change• Warning &• Enforcement

Success factors• Strong political will
• Public education & awarenesscampaigns for behavioural change• Receptive stakeholders (NGOs,CBOs, Private Institutions) withcommunity commitment• Strong Community support andparticipation• Incentives & Penalties

Selecting Techologies
Selection of Technology•Available•Accessible•Appropriate•Affordable

RecyclingRates (%)

Waste Generation Indicator
kg/capita/day

Targets for Waste Reduction & Recycling
2011-2020
2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

1.5

1.35

1.21

1.09

0.98

0.88

0.78

0.72

0.64

0.58

25

27

30

33

37

40

44

49

5359

Source: PEMANDU SWM Lab, 201111

Initial waste management targets by 2020

Target (by 2020):
0.58 kg/day/capita

Target (by 2020):
60% recycling rate(2011: 1.50 kg/day/capita)(2011: 23% recycling rate)

Participants:

Landfill*•••••

Reduce total volume landfilled
Divert organic waste
Reduce/ban recyclables – paper, plastics, glass
Reduce/ban high volume wastes – construction, used tyres, bulk waste
Ban toxic wastes – electronic and electrical, batteries, Styrofoam, used
medicine

Source: PEMANDU LABS 2011

MPPP
MPSP
Civil society
Private sector

% Targets for recycling and recovering specificwaste streams by 2020~20% ofcurrent
waste~30% ofcurrent
waste

Organicfoodwaste

20112012

2013

2014

2015201620172018

2019

2020

51020304050607080100

C&D
waste

4060

Marineclay

2570

Source: PEMANDU LABS 2011

EconomyEnvironment

Local Action
Stakeholders

Institution

Balanced
Sustainable
Developmentfor a
Green StateCHANGING THE RULES
By-Laws & Regulations
1. Source Separation By-laws

2.Waste Generator Pays Principle

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Strategy1:
EconomyStrategy 2:
Environment

Strategy 3:
Stakeholders

Strategy 4:
Institution

Economic Growth withProtection forEnvironment andReducing Impacts ofDevelopment

Improve economy &Quality of Life throughEnvironmental Planning

Adaptation for Future
Environmental
Challenges and Threats
with Sustainbale
Resources for Future
Generations

Strong Political Will
Looking Ahead
Towards a Green State• Objectives:• Promoting a GreenEconomy
Strategy1:• Identify & solve current
Protection for environmental problems
in Penang.
Environment • Reduce environmental
and Reducing impacts and ecologicalfootprint throughImpacts ofenvironmental planning.

Development

Strategy 1 activities
Promote waste minimisation programmes for waste diversion fromthe landfill with 3Rs in the setting up of Environment Resource
Centres in Residential Ares and Zero Waste Communities
Develop a better managed solid waste management system throughthe upgrading the existing landfill at Pulau Burong into a Level IV
Sanitary Landfill with leachate treatment.
Set up buy-back centres, at shopping malls, material recovery
facilities or resource recovery centres to divert waste away from thelandfill such as school recycle banks
Collect used PCs & peripherals under the Dell-Sunshine-MPPP
ProgrammeCollect used cooking oil from eateries, restaurants, food complexes.

Collect food and green waste for composting and processing into
liquid fertilizer.

Strategy 1 activities
Established “No smoking” zones for Penang and encouraging a healthy
life style like cycling.
Banned the giving of free plastic shopping bags in Supermarkets /Hypermarkets to reduce the carbon footprint. Polluters pay: Bring yourOwn Shopping Bags
Banned the use of Styrofoam food containers.
Promoting the use of tiffin carriers

Enforced the closed house system for pig-farming & chicken farming
activities - Zero Discharge

Collection of used roadside banners to be turned into shopping bags.

Implemented the “100 steps to cleanliness” project with 3R recyclingboxes as Street Furniture and advertising mediaNO FREE PLASTIC BAG CAMPAIGN:•No Free Plastic Bag Campaign-– Penang - 1 Jul 2009 (Mon,Tues, Wed)
• 1 Jan 2011 (Everyday)• Retailers, Supermarkets,Hypermarkets, Departmental
Stores• 2008 - 25.2 mil / yr 2.5 milbags/month, now less thanhalf• 20 cents per plastic Bag
following the polluter pays
policyRECYCLE BANKFLOW CHART

Collected
SegregatedWeighedRecorded in Bank BookStoredSold to recycling agent

‘CLEANER GREENER PENANG’ COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES,PENANG ISLAND MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

ALTERNATIVES TO PLASTICS AND STYROFOAM FOOD CONTAINERS

2010 - 44 Food complexes on the island
2011 - Education Phase for all restaurants, shops, night markets licensed by MPPP

Office & Household e-Waste Management
started in 2004 in collaboration with thePenang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) – Dell, Sunshine Supermarket
Total Collection todate: 133,211.50 kgs

JICA-Penang State
Government Householde-waste Management Project
Officially launching• 14 April 2012 by the Seberang Perai
Municipal Council• 1June 2012 by Penang Island
Municipal Council

ZERO WASTE PROGRAMME(VILLAGE COMMUNITY)27

• Objectives:• Create more green andopen spaces as City Lungs• Provide more recreational
facilities
Strategy 2:• Ensure Environmental
Improve
health and cleanliness
Quality of Life • Car Free Sunday• Minimum 7 healthy Sunday
through
exercise programme in all 5
Environmental districts to create a Healthy
Living Programme
Planning

Strategy 2a activities
Cleaning up of rivers and waterways through the EM mudball
treatment programme at Sungai Juru, and Sungai Pinang
Water quality improved from Class 5 to stablised Class 3 bycleaning at source.

Implement Carnarvon Street Tree planting projects - Green theStreets

Commission Penang Botanic Gardens Masterplan – expansionof the oldest botanic gardens in Malaysia

Revitalisation of Relau Agriculture Station – Green Lung

Strategy 2b activities
Develop Penang Hill into an ecotourism destination – eco-Village
Concept
To establish a “Jungle in the City
Mangrove Park” at Bagan Jermal/Marina Bay.

Develop Prangin Canal area into acity park – back to good old days.

Strategy 3:
Adaptation forFuture
Environmental
Challengesand Threats• Objectives:• Recognise global environmental
crisis and its implications onPenang• Prevent natural resources
depletion & scarcity• Prevent ecosystem loss andbiodiversity erosion• Develop policy and practice tomeet future sustainability
challenges• Conserve natural resources.
• Plan for sustainable
development.

Strategy 3 activities
Set up Environmental Resource Centres in each district.
( 7 units set up on the mainland and 1 on the Island)
Grow your own vegetable programme - organic
awareness
Incorporating rainwater harvesting systems in wetmarkets.
Landfill gas extraction

Turning pig waste into bio-gas and electricity.
Cultivation of algae from pig waste for animal feed

Implement eco-town concept for the Bayan Lepas Free
Industrial Zone – Brown field to eco-town

Strategy 3 activities
Plan of Eco-town at Batu Kawan –Green Field

Plan for eco-village in Penang Hill – Green field –Balanced & Sustainable

Provide incentives for green activities :• Implemented the Green School Award• Promoted the Green Citizen membership to encourage citizens to be green• Developed the “Aqua Save” Programme to conserve and use water efficiently• Penang Environmental Award• Green Journalist Award to promote environmental activism

Strategy4:
LookingAhead•Objectives:•Develop a visionof a sustainablePenang.
•Develop a newstate agenda forsustainabledevelopment.

Strategy 4 activities
Establish the Penang Science Council to help
inspire great interest in science and technologythat will result in an environment that generates
great passion for excellence through technicalinnovations.
Establish Penang Green Council to look into allmatters pertaining to environment andsustainability, promotion & awareness creationand endorsement facilitator for Green
Certification

Establish a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to
manage public cleansing, solid waste collection,transfer and disposal.

Overview of MSWM system

 MSW from Penang Island(Before the bridge construction)

Transported to Batu Maung TS barged to Pulau Burong Landfill(During the bridge construction)
Transported to Ampang Jajar TS via theFirst Penang Bridge  compacted transported to Burong Landfill
 MSW from North/Central Seberang
PeraiJelutong
Landfill(construction &demolition
waste, garden
waste, bulkywaste)

First Penang Bridge

Batu Maung
Transfer Station(operationsuspended tillfurther notice)

Ampang Jajar
Transfer Station(former landfill)
Second Penang Bridge(under construction)

Pulau Burong
Sanitary Landfill

Transported to Ampang Jajar TS compacted  transported to Pulau
Burong Landfill
 MSW from South Seberang PeraiDirectly transported to Pulau Burong
Landfill36Solid Waste Sector Information
No. Item

MPPP

MPSP

Unit

288,377

528,275

Tonnes/year (2012)

790

1447

Tonnes/ day (2012)

1.07

1.47

Kg/capita/day

189,829

195,829

Households

26

43

Percenti

Waste Composition* (Source: Derived from Satang Report 2003 )Organic
43
63

percent

ii

Paper

28

5

percent

iii

Plastic

15

17

percent

iv

Metal

5

4

percent

v

Glass

00

percent

vi

Other

611

percent

Quantity of waste
generated annually
Quantity of waste
generated daily
Quantity of waste
generated per capitaTotal number ofhouseholds in the city
Percentage of municipal
budget used for solid
waste sector

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Overall Waste Generation & Recycling
Year

Waste Disposed at Landfill Per Year (metrictons)
MPPP

MPSP

Total

Recycling Per Year (metric tons)
MPPP

MPSP

A

Total

B

Total
Recycling
Waste
Rate (%)
GenerationPer Year(metricTons)
C=(A+B)
B/C

2005

280,489

416,254696,743

57,17896,032

153,210

849,953

18.03%

2006

295,498

463,750759,248

82,210119,964

202,174

961,42221.03%

2007

216,490

490,729707,219

80,351

125,504

205,855

913,074

22.55%

2008

218,440

472,005

690,445

33,775

124,121

157,896

848,341

18.61%

2009

216,456

428,563

645,019

61,307132,039

193,346

838,365

23.06%

2010

213,591

426,152

639,743

63,756

129,804

193,560

833,304

23.23%

2011

209,701

401,663

611,364

72,341

144,682

217,023

828,387

26.20%

2012

205,972

370,989

576,961

82,405

157,286

239,691

816,652

29.35%

Source:Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP), 2013
Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP), 2013
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Targets for Organic Waste Reduction for Penang
StateOrganicwaste
Reduction(%)

2011

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

51020304050607080100

Source: PEMANDU SWM Lab, 201139

Heng Ee High School
Canteen waste
Collection (3,000students)

Bayan Baru Hawker
Complex Food Waste
Collection

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Taman Bagan Lalang Zero Waste Community launching

41

BAGAN AJAM WET MARKET WASTE COMPOSTING PLANT

42

THE GROUNDSWELL™
PROCESS forGREEN WASTEMANAGING
MEGA-EVENTSTreatment at jelutong dumpsite

Groundswell Static Fermentation Process
Waste to top soil

4-6 weeksStage
1Picking

IncomingWaste

Inoculating

Stage2WithStarter &SeederStage
3Turning &Respraying

8-12 weeks

Stage4Curing

BUILDING ZERO WASTE ON GREEN WASTE- PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
1. Reuse & recover green waste to Humisoil through anatural process using minimal energy or wholesale
methane generation
2. Diversion of green waste from Jelutong Dumpsite
3. Reduce the cost expenditure of tipping fees
4. Decentralized material recovery facility
5. Selection of Groundswell Static Frementation Process

Location
Phase 1 : Relau Green Waste Processing Plant
Phase 2 : Teluk Bahang Green Waste Processing Plant

PENANG’S VOLUNTARY CARBON
OFFSET SCHEME

Original Photo: churchofnobody.blogspot.com

CO2 Abatement Processes- Penang’s program for assisted change

Activities

AvoidedEmissions

CarbonSequestration
21-Jan-15• 2 kinds of Defined Activities:• e.g. Diverting Organics, recycling food, etc• e.g. building a pool of soil carbon on farms,
permanent tree planting, re-afforestration etc.

Penang’sCommittment
When you buy offsets in this scheme you help
our landfills and farmers to go green.
By offsetting emissions made elsewhere thecommunity helps itself and a direct incentive toreduce waste and improve agricultural land iscreated.

21-Jan-15

CONCLUSION• Your Environment , YourOwnership• Focus on the polluter /waste
generator and not on thesymptom!
• Polluters must pay!

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