PETALING JAYA: With most people staying at home because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysian households continue to generate vast amounts of domestic waste, mostly food and plastic waste.
The Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation (SWCorp) said people had been generating slightly over 200,000 tonnes of domestic waste each month since the start of the first movement control order in March 18 last year, in states that enforce the Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Act 2007 (Act 672).
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