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 201	Asbestos wastes in sludges, dust or fibre forms
SW 202	Waste catalysts
SW 203	Immobilized scheduled wastes including chemically fixed, encapsulated, solidified or stabilized sludges
SW 204	Sludges containing one or several metals including chromium, copper, nickel, zinc, lead, cadmium, aluminium, tin, vanadium and beryllium
SW 205	Waste gypsum arising from chemical industry or power plant
SW 206	Spent inorganic acids
SW 207	Sludges containing fluoride
SW 3	Wastes containing principally organic constituents which may contain metals and inorganic materials
SW 301	Spent organic acids with pH less or equal to 2 which are corrosive or hazardous
SW 302	Flux waste containing mixture of organic acids, solvents or compounds of ammonium chloride
SW 303	Adhesive or glue waste containing organic solvents excluding solid polymeric materials
SW 304	Press cake from pretreatment of glycerol soap lye