The Impacts of Illegal Toxic Waste Dumping on Children’s Health: A Review and Case Study from Pasir Gudang, Malaysia

Ibrahim, Mohd Faiz; Hod, Rozita; Toha, Haidar Rizal; Nawi, Azmawati Mohammed; Idris, Idayu Badilla; Yusoff, Hanizah Mohd; Sahani, Maneesh

doi:10.3390/ijerph18052221

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“…Pasir Gudang is an important Malaysian industrial and port city [27]. Along with its rapid development and industry, residents of Pasir Gudang are exposed to multiple of waste caused by human activity [31].…”

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Plastic waste knowledge of households towards a sustainable environment

Nasir

Malek²,

Januri³

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Plastic waste in Malaysia has become a serious problem since it affects not only the environment but wildlife animals and marine life too. These may cause by irresponsible people in dealing with their plastic waste management. Therefore, this study is conducted mainly to analyse the knowledge, attitude, awareness, and behaviours of households in Pasir Gudang towards plastic waste management in separating plastic waste before its disposal. A questionnaire was distributed among households who live in this area. The Binary Logistic Regression is used to analyse the knowledge, attitude, awareness, and behaviour of households towards plastic waste management. The results show that only the behaviours of households affect the plastic waste management in their households (p-value=0.04). The Hosmer-Lemeshow test indicates the model has a good fit for the data (p-value=0.480). Other than that, the Omnibus test (p-value=0.03) shows predictors have significant effects and gave improvement to the model. The Classification Table shows the accuracy of 67.4% of the households who separated plastic waste before its disposal. It is suggested to improve the result by adding more respondents to provide insight information on the independent variables, analyse further using other approach such as decision tree and parallelly acknowledge others on the importance of recycling plastic waste.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plastic waste knowledge of households towards a sustainable environment

Nasir

Malek²,

Januri³

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…It has also been found that children who live close to e-waste sites are vulnerable to hazardous organic contaminants. Owing to their vulnerability to environmental toxicants, children have become a significant focus of health effects studies relating to informal e-waste recycling [120][121][122][124][125][126][127][128][129][130]. Children are often exposed through the inhalation of toxic fumes and particulate matter, via skin contact with corrosive chemicals, and by ingesting contaminated food and water [112].…”

Section: Adverse Health Impacts Associated With E-wastementioning

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Environmental and Health Consequences of E-Waste Dumping and Recycling Carried out by Selected Countries in Asia and Latin America

2023

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The volume of e-waste generated worldwide is surging, and it is set to escalate further due to continuing technological innovation and the early obsolescence of most electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). Even though there are many studies on e-waste management, the environmental and health consequences of e-waste regarding direct exposure during informal recycling and indirect exposure through environmental contamination are poorly studied. This study analyses the environmental and health consequences of e-waste dumping and informal recycling practices in selected countries such as Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and Pakistan. Several databases, such as Science Direct, ProQuest, Web of Science, and Emerald, were used to analyse studies from 2005 to 2022. Based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol, 179 journal articles were evaluated. This study found that the majority of e-waste is poorly managed in terms of ecological safety and soundness. This study also found that illegal dumping, acid leaching, and open burning, which are practices that harm the environment and the well-being of e-waste workers, are still being performed by the selected countries. This study provides several practical suggestions for addressing the environmental and health consequences of e-waste dumping and recycling.

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“…According to 2017 statistics from the Department of the Environment (DOE), 219 (46%) of 477 rivers surveyed were deemed to be clean, 207 (43%) were mildly contaminated, and 51 (11%) were polluted, a small rise from 2011 levels. Ibrahim et al (2021) noted that in June 2019, approximately 2000 individuals and 111 schools were forced to shut down due to water contamination in the Pasir Gudang river in Sungai Kim. As a result, the report recommended that corporations in Malaysia should embrace Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER).…”

Section: Asian Economic and Financial Reviewmentioning

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The effect of environmental, social and governance criteria on the corporate value of listed companies in Malaysia

Shahrun,

Ramasamy,

Yen

2023

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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are used by most corporations to achieve and maintain the best management quality. Thus, implementing ESG might assist firms in Malaysia to improve their corporate performance. The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of ESG on corporate performance in terms of the value of Malaysian listed firms. A total of 45 companies listed on Bursa Malaysia that have complete ESG data from 2011–2021 were selected from Bloomberg’s ESG database. Corporate value was measured using three indicators – return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and Tobin’s Q. According to the results, the ESG scores have an insignificant positive influence on ROE and Tobin’s Q. However, the ESG scores have a negative but insignificant impact on ROA. The individual Environmental score has a negative impact on ROA but a positive impact on ROE and Tobin’s Q. Meanwhile, Social on its own has an insignificant negative impact on all variables, and Governance has a positive but insignificant impact on all variables. Based on the inconsistencies between the results of this study and those of previous research, the conclusions on whether ESG criteria promote business value and performance cannot be reached. ESG practices have become increasingly important, not only for policymakers but for governments and stakeholders. Hence, the outcome of this study will be useful for the government to reduce costs and implement policies to improve corporate performance in Malaysia.

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The Impacts of Illegal Toxic Waste Dumping on Children’s Health: A Review and Case Study from Pasir Gudang, Malaysia

Cited by 15 publications

References 63 publications

Plastic waste knowledge of households towards a sustainable environment

Plastic waste knowledge of households towards a sustainable environment

Environmental and Health Consequences of E-Waste Dumping and Recycling Carried out by Selected Countries in Asia and Latin America

The effect of environmental, social and governance criteria on the corporate value of listed companies in Malaysia

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