Scheduled Waste Management

Scheduled waste is any wastes that possess hazardous characteristics and have the potential to adversely affect the public health and environment. There are 77 types of scheduled wastes listed under the First Schedule of Environmental Quality (Scheduled Wastes) Regulations 2005 and the management of wastes shall be following the provisions of the above Regulations.

Waste can be classified by obtaining information on how the waste is generated and the raw materials used in the related process. By identifying the source of the waste and/or its specific hazardous characteristics, the waste generator can use the information to classify the waste and the specific SW code by referring it to the list of scheduled wastes in the First Schedule of the Regulations of the Environmental Quality (Scheduled Wastes) Regulations 2005.

Reference:
Department of Environment,
https://www.doe.gov.my/en/scheduled-waste-information/

List of scheduled waste code and descriptin

CODE	DESCRIPTION
SW 1	Metal and metal-bearing wastes
SW 101	Waste containing arsenic or its compound
SW 102	Waste of lead acid batteries in whole or crushed form
SW 103	Waste of batteries containing cadmium and nickel or mercury or lithium
SW 104	Dust, slag, dross or ash containing arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel, copper, vanadium, beryllium, antimony, tellurium, thallium or selenium excluding slag from iron and steel factory
SW 105	Galvanic sludges
SW 106	Residues from recovery of acid pickling liquor
SW 107	Slags from copper processing for further processing or refining containing arsenic, lead or cadmium
SW 108	Leaching residues from zinc processing in dust and sludges form
SW 109	Waste containing mercury or its compound
SW 110	Waste from electrical and electronic assemblies containing components such as accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass polychlorinated biphenyl-capacitors, or contaminated with cadmium, mercury, lead, nickel, chromium, copper, lithium, silver, manganese or polychlorinated biphenyl
SW 2	Wastes containing principally inorganic constituents which may contain metals and organic materials