Authors : Nurul Aishah Abd Rahman, Farah Wahida Mohd Latib, Noor Safwan Muhamad, Muhammad Isha Ismail and Zulfadhli Dzulkifli
Abstract: Environmental and pollution issues are alarmingly increased each year as Malaysia moved forward to achieve high-income country in current national plan. One of the main concerns to look upon is solid waste management and final disposal thereof. As such, district of Ipoh, Perak, produces 0.85 kg/capita per day of waste and keeps increasing each year at a rate of 5.4%. This rapid increment acquires structured and well-managed plan to handle the solid waste disposal. A handful of reports stated that the waste collector practices are not undertaken as previously instructed which lead towards abundance and excessive deposit of waste at collection checkpoint. Thus, this calamity needs to be solved by producing a tool on how to manage the solid waste disposal via the use of web-based program. The existing guidelines are embedded within the newly proposed web-based program, so that practitioners and ordinary citizen can peruse and look upon on how to manage the solid waste at their convenience. The main aims of this research are to identify the composition of municipal solid waste in Ipoh, Perak and to develop a model of municipal solid waste management using XAMPP web-based program. User-defined functions were created into the PHP interface enabling the users to click the menu on the main screen. Prior to this web development, questionnaires and interviews were carried out to gather the primary data on the solid waste composition at the district of Ipoh, Perak. The model development is commenced after getting enough and reliable data pertaining to solid waste composition thereof. The development of web-based model for Ipoh district is expected to help practitioners and residents to identify the composition of waste and best management practice at their community.
Nurul Aishah Abd Rahman, Farah Wahida Mohd Latib, Noor Safwan Muhamad, Muhammad Isha Ismail and Zulfadhli Dzulkifli, 2016. Development of a Model for Municipal Solid Waste Management at Residential Area for Case Study in Kamunting, Perak Using Web Development. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 11: 1962-1966.