Waste Management Issues in the Northern Region of Malaysia

This study highlights the factors that contribute to the generation of waste and identifies a number of barriers as potential hurdles of waste management. The results for the factors which contribute to waste generation obviously show that traditional construction method, poor workmanship, poor storage, poor handling, untidy construction sites and lack of management techniques to minimize waste are the main factors that have the highest mean responses. The barriers of waste management show that lack of knowledge of construction waste management has higher ranking compared with the other issues, with a mean response which ranges from important to most important.