THIS deluge of plastic bags surrounding GCH Retail (M) Sdn Bhd corporate affairs manager Zamri Maulan is but a fraction of the millions of bags dispensed by Giant hypermarket each year to customers. A large percentage of them will end up in landfills, where they will remain for many years because plastic takes forever to degrade.
Selangor state executive councillor Datuk Ch'ng Toh Eng warns Selangor residents about having smelly landfills as neighbours if they continue to throw out 6,000 tonnes of rubbish daily.
Landfills are getting full, and there is hardly any more suitable land left to create new ones.
Incinerators are not popular and the “intelligent” Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) landfill in Kajang is facing teething problems.
Recycling seems to be the practical way out, a view shared by the Government and even the Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers Association.
The association, at the risk of losing some business, has proposed collecting back plastic bags for recycling
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