What cannot be recycled?
Paper
- Pizza boxes or anything soiled with grease and/or food waste
- Paper plates
- Facial or bathroom tissue
- Carbon paper
- Disposable diapers
- Hardcover books
- Milk cartons
- Plastic and wax paper
- Frozen food containers
- Paper towels
Aluminium
- Aerosol cans
- Solvent cans
- Paint cans
- Hangers
- Medical wastes or needles
- Oil filters
Plastic
- Any plastic container that is not a bottle, such as yoghurt containers, margarine tubs and microwave food trays.
- Plastic food trays
- Plastic bottles that have contained motor oil, pesticides or other hazardous materials
- Styrofoam
Glass
- Ceramics
- Drinking glasses
- Window glass
- Mirrors
- Light bulbs
- Broken window and windscreen glass
- Heat treated glass e.g. Pyrex, Corning Ware, Vision Ware
- White opaque bottles
- Laboratory or medical glass
- Window glass, light bulbs, mirror glass, broken crockery, ovenproof glass or labware, drinking glasses, crystalware, or any porcelain, ceramics, pottery, florescent light tube
Others
- Explosives
- Business/apartment maintenance waste
- Empty containers of any type
- Asbestos
- Fluorescent lights
- Household batteries
- Medical wastes
- Radioactive material
References
- Malaysia Ministry of Housing and Local Government
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January 4, 2017 |
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