MPKS has been working on a proposed waste management facility designated as the “Samarahan Waste Management Park’ (SWMP) and promoting a paradigm shift in waste management concept, from “end-of-pipe” approach to waste treatment and disposal to “waste-as-a-resource” approach for sustainable solid waste management.
This Feasibility Study (FS) was planned in such way that in the long run, it shall assist MPKS in establishing integrated resource recovery centers (IRRCs) and ultimately a waste management park built around an array of waste generation, containment, collection, logistics, reception, processing, recycle, reuse, recovery (3Rs), treatment, waste-to-resource (WtR), waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies, terminal end disposal and processing facility while developing and implementing solid waste management strategies that are sustainable and financially viable.
Description of Actual Services Provided:
A Feasibility Study was conducted to determine the most appropriate and cost-effective waste management system(s) and technology(ies) for SWMP in place of usual landfill facility as the single means of disposing waste. The study area covered the whole Samarahan Division namely Samarahan, Asajaya and Simunjan district. The FS covered the following components:
- Assessment of the current situation. This included existing waste management scheme(s) and system(s) in Samarahan. The existing scheme and system were assessed and benchmarked against appropriate regional and international practices.
- Data collection. This covered waste source area profiling, detailed waste characterization study, researches on available and best practices in waste management, relevant surveys and etc.
- Value Analysis (VA) options. Comprehensive study encompassed comparative evaluation of wide range of concepts and layout of SWMP including scheme(s) and technology(ies).
- Technical analysis. A further technical analysis was undertaken for all possible concept and layout of SWMP which included proposed location of components inside SWMP, conceptual technical design of SWMP, operation, waste collection, 3Rs, logistics, reception, storage, processing, treatment and terminal end disposal facility and energy generation.
- Technology description. Further study on conceptual capacity of each system, material and energy flow analysis, WtE technology evaluation consisting of review of the technical, environmental, logistical, financial and economic, socio-political, legal, regulatory, institutional, and capacity-building requirements.
- Site description. Study on the aspects of environmental, geographical, geological, soil characteristics, climatological data, flood potentials and socio-political.
- By-products/emissions. Analysis of the by-products/emissions and runoffs that may be caused by the proposed SWMP facility.
- Financial and economic analysis. The financial and economic analyses was undertaken to determine the viability/feasibility of the proposed scheme and system in SWMP.
- Institutional analysis. A comprehensive analysis on the institutional analysis and legal aspects of establishing SWMP.
- Social analysis. Analysis on the social aspects of establishing SWMP including the social acceptability of the proposed SWMP.
