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23rd July, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: The government will fully enforce the Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Act 2007 (Act 672) by year’s end.
Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government Datuk Hamzah Zainudin when speaking at the Dewan Rakyat yesterday said that the government was not able to fully implement the act at present as several regulations still needed fine tuning.
“As of today there is not a single state that has handed over the solid waste and public cleansing management service to the federal government.
“We can only sign the agreement once the regulations are put into place and the Act is fully enforced,” he said.
Hamzah was replying to Senator Muhamad Yusof Husin’s question about how many states had handed over the service to the federal government and the companies that had been given the contract.
“States governments that refuse to hand over the solid waste management to the government will have to manage it in their respective state,” he said.
Hamzah said the move to take over the management from state governments was to standardise the service nationwide.
In reply to Senator Hiang A Li question on the country’s recycling programme, Hamzah said it had achieved 5 per cent of its objective so far.
The government hoped to achieve 22 per cent of the objective by 2020.
“We want the programme to continue until people understand why we need to recycle,” he said.
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