Floods, rising seas make dumps more dangerous
NEWS Floods, rising seas make dumps more dangerous Ashley Leong Published: Aug 5, 2024 7:15 AM ⋅ Updated: 11:57 AM ADS Editor’s note: This article was first published on Macaranga.org and is republished with permission. Powered By VidCrunch The landfill looms like a Titan, 27 metres into the sky, a stark symbol of Malaysians’ mounting waste problem. That is as tall as a 4-storey building. Its decaying mound emits a foul stench, all from the waste we generate. This is the Jeram landfill in Selangor, which receives waste from six local councils in the Klang Valley. Within 10 minutes, 30 trucks unload their contents onto the ever-growing heap. Every day, 1,000 rubbish trucks dump, on average, 3.7 million kilogrammes of waste into the landfill. But far away from where anyone lives, it allows us to adopt the mantra of "out of sight, out of mind". ADS As Malaysia’s population not only grows but aspires for better living standards, we also generate mo...