More recycling and community involvement are part of Alam Flora’s plan to make Malaysia cleaner

Malaysia is moving toward more environmentally friendly ways to handle trash, and Alam Flora Sdn Bhd (Alam Flora) has become a key player in that process. Alam Flora is an important part of environmental management. It was founded in 1995 and is now a unit of Malakoff Corporation Berhad, which is Malaysia’s largest independent power producer. The company works in places like Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, and Pahang to handle trash and lessen its effect on the environment. Malaysia wants to have a 40% national recycling rate by 2025. Alam Flora’s work to handle garbage and get people involved in the community is very important for creating a healthy future.

A 5R Approach to Growing Recycling Programs
To help it reach its recycling and garbage management goals, Alam Flora has come up with a new “5R” method: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover. Refuse and Recovery are added to the standard 3R method, which is based on Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. This gives a more complete picture. Malaysians are encouraged by the 5R framework to get rid of things that aren’t necessary, save resources, and give priority to recycling materials that can be used again in some way. This extra “R” gives people the power to rethink how they use things and start reducing waste right away. Alam Flora’s program actively encourages this by educating the community and stressing the importance of buying things in a smart way and sorting trash at home, making sustainability a personal duty.

RISE@KL: A Model for Recycling Today
The Recovery Initiative Sustainable Eco-Facility (RISE@KL) of the company is a big part of changing the way people recycle in Malaysia. RISE@KL is a semi-automated sorting center that takes in a lot of different kinds of recyclables and makes sure they are sorted quickly so they can be used in other processes. RISE@KL helps Alam Flora reach its main goal of promoting a cycle economy, in which things are used over and over again, lessening the need for new resources and the damage they do to the earth.

Alam Flora also works on research and development projects that focus on coming up with new ways to recycle trash. This includes turning plastic trash into fuel, turning food waste into energy, and getting as much reusable stuff back as possible. Investing in research and development (R&D) can lead to long-lasting ways to change trash into useful materials, which will eventually help the government’s efforts to make Malaysia healthier.

FIKS: Making it easier for communities to take part in managing waste
The Fasiliti Inovasi Kitar Semula (FIKS) center is one of Alam Flora’s most important community-focused projects. The goal of FIKS is to give people and groups the information they need to make smart choices about the environment by providing a one-stop teaching hub for trash management and recycling. Through this center, Alam Flora gives visitors—including students, members of the community, and business groups—a one-of-a-kind place to learn about organizing trash, recycling, and environmentally friendly ways to deal with trash.

FIKS is made up of several important facilities:

Hab Ilmu is an information place where people can learn how to protect the earth.

3R Butik is a store that sells things made from reusable materials to show how trash can be turned into useful things.

Koc Ilmu and Koc Kreatif are special places where classes and art projects that teach people about recycling and being environmentally friendly can take place.

Integrated Recycling Facility (IRF): This is a full-service recycling center where people can watch as wastes are sorted and processed.
Recycling is good for the community’s economy and the environment.

FIKS has recycling stations and a Buy Back Center (BBC) where people can sell things that can be recycled, like paper, plastic, metal, glass, and computer trash (e-waste). This project not only encourages recycling, but it also gives people and NGOs a way to make money. It creates a habit of recycling while also helping people’s finances.

The benefits of recycling through Alam Flora’s programs go beyond the awards for individuals:

Effects on the Economy: Selling recyclables brings in money that Alam Flora can put back into community projects. This economic cycle makes a model that can be used for a long time and helps both community and environmental projects.

Environmental Protection—Recycling cuts down on the amount of trash that ends up in dumps, which protects natural resources and lowers the pollution that comes with getting rid of trash. The atmosphere is better, there are fewer fumes, and land resources are not being used as much.

Resource Efficiency: Recycling makes communities stronger by making better use of the resources they already have, which lessens the effects of resource shortage.

IRF and the Circular Economy: Getting Rid of Waste
The Integrated Recycling Facility (IRF) is a key part of Alam Flora’s plan to deal with trash. IRF has been handling about 350 tonnes of trash every month since it opened in August 2019. The building is dedicated to organizing things like old corrugated cardboard (OCC), plastic, glass, metal, and electronic trash. It is staffed by trained professionals. Then, each material is made ready for its own industry. For example, cardboard is baled and sent to paper mills, plastics are shredded so they can be used in manufacturing, and e-waste is recycled in facilities approved by the Department of Environment. This building shows that Alam Flora supports a cycle economy, in which trash is turned back into resources that can be used again. This makes materials last longer that would otherwise end up in landfills.

By constantly recovering materials, IRF lowers the need for raw materials, lowers the amount of trash that ends up in landfills, and lowers its total effect on the earth. This fits with Alam Flora’s goal of stopping trash from building up in dumps and keeping resources moving. By making it easier to recycle and reuse, Alam Flora helps a circular economy’s main goals of protecting resources and lowering pollution.

A network of recycling centers across Malaysia that are easy to get to
Alam Flora runs ten recycling sites in Malaysia. They are spread out in smart ways in Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, and Kuantan. People in the community can easily drop off recycling at each center, sell them, and get paid based on the type of garbage, its amount, and its weight. This network of recycling sites shows that Alam Flora wants to make recycling easy and available for everyone in Malaysia, which encourages regular community involvement.

Some well-known places are:

This is Putrajaya Precincts 5, 9, and 18.
Jalan Bunus, AEON Big Wangsa Maju, AEON Alpha Angle, RISE KL, and MP Tiong Nam are all in Kuala Lumpur. In Kuantan, Pahang, Taman Gelora and MP Bandar Kuantan are in Pahang.
Alam Flora has both standard recycling centers and Drive-Thru Recycling Centres in places like Jalan Bunus and AEON Big Wangsa Maju. These make it easy for people to recycle without having to get out of their cars. – Alam Flora Wesite

A Group Effort to Shape Malaysia’s Green Future
Alam Flora’s part is becoming more important as Malaysia works to reach its goal of becoming a Low Carbon Green City by 2030. Alam Flora is a leader in promoting responsible garbage management, waste recovery, and recycling through programs like FIKS and IRF. These programs create business possibilities while also promoting a mindset of environmentalresponsibility.

To change Malaysia’s trash culture, Alam Flora needs to keep working on recycling teaching, making recycling places easy for people to get to, and managing waste in a way that doesn’t waste resources. Their work to promote a circular economy model, teach communities, and help the economy through recycling rewards is an example for other areas and groups across the country. Malaysia is on a good path to a cleaner, better future thanks to people working together and the backing of a more informed and involved public.

-AsiaNewsToday