Waste Reduction & Waste Recycling

Putrajaya was selected as the national model for a recycling project in 2004, and in 2009 the pilot project was launched to separate solid waste by the housing and Local Government Ministry which aims to reduce the waste sent to landfills nationwide by 40%. All houses, apartments, shops, schools and kindergartens within the areas involved are supplied with two bins to allow the residents to separate recyclable items or other waste under the pilot project. In various precincts, collection centers were built for the residents to send waste products to be recycled.