What is E-Waste?

What is e-Waste?

The term e-Waste or Waste of Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) covers all types of Electrical & Electronic Equipment (EEE) that have been discarded.

Mobile e-Waste specifically refers to any waste generated from SIM-based devices such as feature phones, smartphones, tablets & phablets along with chargers & accessories.

Mobile devices have to be properly disposed when they are no longer in use. The materials are not biodegradable & contain hazardous components that could harm your health & pollute the environment.

Through proper recycling process, over 90% of the materials used in mobile devices & accessories can be recovered.

Extended Producer Responsibility

In addressing the e-waste issues, Malaysia will introduce the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programme. EPR is a product and waste management system of which manufacturers are responsible for the environmentally safe management of their products (take-back, recycling and final disposal) when they are no longer useful or discarded.

In order to complement the EPR initiatives in Malaysia, MCMC as the regulator for the communication and multimedia industry has initiated an industry joint recycling programme on discarded mobile devices. Mobile e-Waste: Old Phone, New life is MCMC’s response to the Resolution 79 adopted in World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA 12) in November 2012. Resolution 79 invites its Member States to take all necessary measures to handle and control e-waste in order to mitigate the hazards which arise from used telecommunication/ICT equipment.

Source from Resolution 79 WTSA12

Where Can I Find the Mobile e-Waste Collection Box?
The List of Participating Outlets in Mobile e-Waste: Old Phone, New Life:

What Can We Discard in the
Mobile e-Waste Collection Box?

• Unused mobile devices – Whether it’s an old brickphone, outdated smartphone, media player or tablets.

• Unused batteries – Bring in your old or spare batteries that are no longer in use. Conventional batteries such as AA and AAA are not acceptable.

• Unused accessories – Chargers, earbuds, external storage cards and cables are acceptable.

Location

• Scrap Computer Trading Sdn Bhd

Sabah dan Selangor merupakan negeri terbaik dalam penjagaan hutan

KUALA LUMPUR – Seorang penyelidik lapangan Sahabat Alam Sekitar (SAM) hari ini mendakwa Kelantan dikenal pasti sebagai negeri paling teruk dalam penjagaan hutan di Malaysia.

Penyelidik berkenaan Meor Razak Meor Abdul Rahman mendakwa keluasan hutan simpan kekal yang ditebang untuk dijadikan hutan ladang di negeri itu adalah terbesar di negara ini.

Greening Your School : Recycling

Recycling means more than just sorting your waste – green building takes this a step further by recycling building materials and reducing the amount of waste to landfill.

Quick wins

• Start a compost or worm farm. Fruit and vegetable scraps, garden clippings and leaves make up nearly 40% of household waste. A school compost or worm farm can recycle green waste and create a natural fertiliser. Draw up a school roster and ask each class to take it in turns to collect organic scraps from the schoolyard – which will keep your school looking clean and green!
• Set a target to save trees. It takes 17 trees to make one tonne of paper. Encourage children using both sides of paper, use scrap paper for artwork and put their unwanted paper in the recycling bin. Audit your students’ paper consumption and set a target to save trees.
• Say no to plastic. Australians use over 10 million plastic bags each day. Make your school a plastic bag free zone. And while you’re at it, ask parents to avoid using plastic wrap in school lunches. Sandwiches can go straight into school lunch boxes and old-fashioned brown paper bags can be recycled.

Where is the balance? Environment vs Development

Published: Fri, 29 Jun 2012

In a conference on sustainable forestry held recently, the deputy director-general of the Forestry Department of Peninsular Malaysia, Datuk Nik Mohd Shah, said Malaysia targets to maintain at least 50 per cent forest cover in each state but Selangor – the most developed state in the country – only has 30 per cent forest cover due to rapid development pressure.

“Very often, for the sake of development, and in this case, infrastructural development, trees, especially older and bigger trees, are often removed without much consideration on their functions, especially to the local climate.

Laporan Aktiviti CETDEM Hari Organik #10

Laporan Aktiviti CETDEM Hari Organik #10 yang telah berlangsung pada Sabtu, 23^hb Jun 2012 di SS2 Petaling Jaya.

Lembah Klang pada hari ini telah melebihi bacaan API 100

KUALITI UDARA KURANG SIHAT

Kualiti udara beberapa kawasan di Lembah Klang pada hari ini telah melebihi bacaan API 100, iaitu tahap kurang sihat.

Punca jerebu yang ini adalah pembakaran yang berlaku di Sumatra, Indonesia, akibat musim kering dan panas. Mengikut pemantauan saya, peningkatan yang mendadak telah berlaku.

CETDEM National Organic Agriculture Seminar 2012 – 2-3 July 2012

The CETDEM National Organic Agriculture Seminar 2012 is coming to you in July.

Click on image for front page of brochure

CETDEM is organising the long awaited National Organic Agriculture Seminar 2012 with the title “Fast Forwarding Organic Agriculture in Malaysia” on 2 & 3 July. This Seminar is endorsed by the Department of Agriculture Malaysia.

Selangor’s Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve a Sanctuary for research

Community activity: A UPM forestry staff member explaining about herbal plants to students during an educational visit to the Ayer HItam Forest Reserve.

THE Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve in Puchong is rich in biodiversity and serves as an outdoor research lab for undergraduates specialising in forest research.

StarMetro recently met Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Forestry Faculty dean Datin Dr Faridah Hanum Ibrahim and several faculty members to find out more about the research facilities housed in the Sultan Idris Shah Forestry Education Centre (Sisfec) located within the forest.

The forest became a topic of debate recently when some hikers were denied entry by security guards stationed at the entrance at Taman Wawasan 5/1.

They have now asked for permission to continue hiking in the forest.

The 1,176ha forest is under the jurisdiction of the Selangor Forestry Department and the Selangor government granted a 80-year lease to UPM in 1996 for education, research and extension in forestry.

Volunteers planting the future

Volunteers are making the world a greener place.

By NATALIE HENG star2green@thestar.com.my

WADING knee-deep through thick mud under a sweltering sun, with your hands covered in muck, probably isn’t a typical way of spending a weekend. There must be some explanation, however, to the rising number of people who are doing just that.

Operating as a mini army of volunteers, these tree planters would car-pool their way to various sites in Selangor and proceed to plant hundreds of tree seedlings in the ground.

Key issues facing Rio+20 By MARTIN KHOR

There will be no major breakthroughs in tackling global crises at Rio+20 but it can still be a success if the leaders can agree to reaffirm old commitments and launch some modest initiatives.

THIS week, up to 100,000 people are streaming into Rio de Janeiro for the year’s biggest international event – the UN Conference on Sustainable Development to be held on June 13-22.

It is more popularly known as the Rio+20 Summit, to commemorate the landmark Earth Summit of 1992, which placed the environmental crisis into the mainstream of political life.