MALAYSIAN SUSTAINABLE GREEN DEEN MSW MANAGEMENT INDICATOR FOR LAND-USE PRACTICE

Abstract

The Malaysian government has launched and promoted a series of municipal waste management awareness, policies
and other related programmes. Despite these policies and programmes carried out by government agencies, there is
plenty of room for full implementation, even by the stakeholders. One such example is land use planning for
municipal solid waste (MSW) management. This paper attempts to identify the most important MSW management
indicator that should be focused by the land use planner. To do so, an index is proposed. The objective of the index is
to measure the level of land use planning effort by local authorities based on MSW management as a step towards
sustainability. The index also indicates the level of MSW management performance indirectly. To improve the
behavior and attitude aspects, the green deen principles are considered. Three phases of mixed-method are used;
qualitative followed by a quantitative phase, were adopted in this research. Those phases are content analysis, Delphi
process, and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The main indicator is divided into two parts. Part A focuses on the
commitments towards waste hierarchy elements and Part B focuses on commitments and responsibilities concerning
the MSW management in land use planning. The results from AHP showed the weightage of each indicator, which
are waste collections (0.2031), landfills (0.1690), 3R (0.2398) for Part 1; while Governance (0.1690), education
(0.0682), stakeholder (0.1129) and services (0.0380) for Part 2. It concludes with a discussion that the 3R activities
need to be focused in land use planning by providing space area for these activities regardless whether the zone is
small or large.