Industrial waste
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Industrial waste includes waste produced by factories, mills, and mines that can be hazardous or non-hazardous. It is categorized as liquid waste, sludge, solid waste, or hazardous waste. In Malaysia, industrial waste has evolved over time with the country's major industries - starting with chemical, textile, and metal working in the 1970s, expanding to include food/beverages, furniture, and plastics in the 1980s, and now focusing on electronics, engineering, and telecommunications. The amount of industrial waste generated is directly related to the level of industrial production.
Industrial waste
- 1. Industrial waste Current issue and statistics
- 2. Industrial waste includes: Waste produced by industrial activity, such as that of factories, mills and mines. Industrial waste may be not hazardous or toxic, such as waste fiber produced by agriculture and logging and may be hazardous. Precisely, Industrial waste is the unwanted materials produced in or eliminated from an industrial operation and categorized under a variety of headings, such as liquid wastes, sludge, solid wastes and hazardous wastes.
- 3. Industrial sector in Malaysia Year Industries 1970 the chemical, textile, and metal working industries 1980 food and beverages, furniture, textiles, plastic and petroleum based products 1990 until now electrical and electronics, engineering, information, communication and telecommunication.
- 7. Relationship between industrial waste generation and industrial production.