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 413	Spent salt containing cyanide
SW 414	Spent aqueous alkaline solution containing cyanide
SW 415	Spent quenching oils containing cyanides
SW 416	Sludges of inks, paints, pigments, lacquer, dye or varnish
SW 417	Waste of inks, paints, pigments, lacquer, dye or varnish
SW 418	Discarded or off-specification inks, paints, pigments, lacquer, dye or varnish products containing organic solvent
SW 419	Spent di-isocyanates and residues of isocyanate compounds excluding solid polymeric material from foam manufacturing process
SW 420	Leachate from scheduled waste landfill
SW 421	A mixture of scheduled wastes
SW 422	A mixture of scheduled and non-scheduled wastes
SW 423	Spent processing solution, discarded photographic chemicals or discarded photographic wastes
SW 424	Spent oxidizing agent