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 401	Spent alkalis containing heavy metals
SW 402	Spent alkalis with pH more or equal to 11.5 which are corrosive or hazardous
SW 403	Discarded drugs containing psychotropic substances or containing substances that are toxic, harmful, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic
SW 404	Pathogenic wastes, clinical wastes or quarantined materials
SW 405	Waste arising from the preparation and production of pharmaceutical product
SW 406	Clinker, slag and ashes from scheduled wastes incinerator
SW 407	Waste containing dioxins or furans
SW 408	Contaminated soil, debris or matter resulting from cleaning-up of a spill of chemical, mineral oil or scheduled wastes
SW 409	Disposed containers, bags or equipment contaminated with chemicals, pesticides, mineral oil or scheduled wastes
SW 410	Rags, plastics, papers or filters contaminated with scheduled wastes
SW 411	Spent activated carbon excluding carbon from the treatment of potable water and processes of the food industry and vitamin production
SW 412	Sludges containing cyanide