Rawang Against Incinerator Network
2023年8月6日
The Rawang Against Incinerator Network expressed firm opposition to the Selangor state government's plan to build an incinerator plant in the Rawang area.
The Rawang Against Incinerator Network (Jaringan Rawang Tolak Incinerator) expressed firm opposition to the Selangor state government's plan to build an incinerator (Waste-To-Energy) plant in the Rawang area and requested a dialogue with the Selangor state government to discuss further and gain a better understanding of the incinerator plant.
The Rawang Against Incinerator Network hosted a community briefing session at Persatuan Ruang Tapir yesterday, which was enthusiastically attended by 45 residents who expressed concerns about the proposed incinerator plant.
Liow Yeong Lih, a Rawang Against Incinerator Network coordinator, pointed out that the Network is launching a public petition against the incinerator in Rawang, hoping that Rawang residents will respond positively. The Network plans to submit the signatures gathered with a memorandum to the Selangor state government before the end of August 2023.
Liow Yeong Lih reiterated that, at present, the residents only have minimal information about the proposed incinerator in Rawang, and no residents have obtained or grasped any official information that was supposed to be released by the proponent of the incinerator. Therefore, the Network plans to request a dialogue with the Selangor state government to exercise their rights to information, informed decisions and rights to expression.
In today's community briefing session, the Network invited the media director of the Kuala Lumpur No Incinerator Action Committee, Lam Choong Wah, to share the experience of Kepong residents in Kuala Lumpur since 2013.
Lam Choong Wah believed that the fundamental reason for the government's insistence on building an incinerator could be due to the authority's unwillingness to enforce modern waste management principles. Proposing an incinerator would likely lead to further urban waste accumulation and hinders efforts to implement waste reduction, recycling, and reuse in Selangor, contrary to modern waste management principles.
Suppose the government prioritises the incinerator without enforcing sustainable and safer waste management options. In that case, it will violate the inverted pyramid of the principles of modern waste management - waste avoidance, reuse, recycling, recovery, removal – a five-tier waste management hierarchy.