SCHEDULED WASTE MANAGEMENT
Malaysia has developed a comprehensive set of legal provisions related to the management of toxic and hazardous wastes. The regulation was based on the cradle to grave principle. A facility which generates, stores, transports, treats or disposes scheduled waste is subject to the following regulations:
(a) Environmental Quality (Scheduled Wastes) Regulations 2005; 
(b) Environmental Quality (Prescribed Conveyance) (Scheduled Wastes) Order 2005;
(e) Customs (Prohibition of Export) Order (Amendment)(No. 2) 1993, and;
(f) Customs (Prohibition of Import) Order (Amendment)(No. 2) 1993.
Guidelines
(1) Guidelines for Packaging, Labelling and Storage of Scheduled Wastes in Malaysia
(2) Guidelines for Non-Rigid Scheduled Wastes Containers: Packaging and Labelling
Schedule - First Schedule (Regulation 2)
Types of Waste Code and Description
| SW 101 | Waste containing arsenic or its compound |
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| SW 102 | Waste of lead acid batteries in whole or crushed form |
| SW 103 | Waste of batteries containing cadmium and nickel or mercury or lithium |
| SW 104 | Dust, slag, dross or ash containing aluminium, arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel, copper, vanadium, beryllium, antimony, tellurium, thallium or selenium excluding slag from iron and steel factory |
| SW 105 | Galvanic sludges |
| SW 106 | Residues from recovery of acid pickling liquor |
| SW 107 | Slags from copper processing for further processing or refining containing arsenic, lead or cadmium |
| SW 108 | Leaching residues from zinc processing in dust and sludges form |
| SW 109 | Waste containing mercury or its compound |
| SW 110 | Waste from electrical and electronic assemblies containing components such as accumulators, mercury-switches, glass from cathode-ray tubes and other activated glass or polychlorinated biphenylcapacitors, or contaminated with cadmium, mercury, lead, nickel, chromium, copper, lithium, silver, manganese or polychlorinated biphenyl |
| SW 201 | Asbestos wastes in sludges, dust or fibre forms |
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| SW 202 | Waste catalysts |
| SW 203 | Immobilized scheduled wastes including chemically fixed, encapsulated, solidified or stabilized sludges |
| SW 204 | Sludges containing one or several metals including chromium, copper, nickel, zinc, lead,cadmium, aluminium, tin, vanadium and beryllium |
| SW 205 | Waste gypsum arising from chemical industry or power plant |
| SW 206 | Spent inorganic acids |
| SW 207 | Sludges containing fluoride |
| SW 301 | Spent organic acids with pH less or equal to 2 which are corrosive or hazardous |
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| SW 302 | Flux waste containing mixture of organic acids, solvents or compounds of ammonium chloride |
| SW 303 | Adhesive or glue waste containing organic solvents excluding solid polymeric materials |
| SW 304 | Press cake from pretreatment of glycerol soap lye |
| SW 305 | Spent lubricating oil |
| SW 306 | Spent hydraulic oil |
| SW 307 | Spent mineral oil-water emulsion |
| SW 308 | Oil tanker sludges |
| SW 309 | Oil-water mixture such as ballast water |
| SW 310 | Sludge from mineral oil storage tank |
| SW 311 | Waste of oil or oily sludge |
| SW 312 | Oily residue from automotive workshop, service station oil or grease interceptor |
| SW 313 | Oil contaminated earth from re-refining of used lubricating oil |
| SW 314 | Oil or sludge from oil refinery plant maintenance operation |
| SW 315 | Tar or tarry residues from oil refinery or petrochemical plant |
| SW 316 | Acid sludge |
| SW 317 | Spent organometallic compounds including tetraethyl lead, tetramethyl lead and organotin compound |
| SW 318 | Waste, substances and articles containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) or polychlorinated triphenyls (PCT) |
| SW 319 | Waste of phenols or phenol compounds including chlorophenol in the form of liquids or sludges |
| SW 320 | Waste containing formaldehyde |
| SW 321 | Rubber or latex wastes or sludges containing organic solvents or heavy metals |
| SW 322 | Waste of non-halogenated organic solvents |
| SW 323 | Waste of halogenated organic solvents |
| SW 324 | Waste of halogenated or unhalogenated non-aqueous distillation residues arising from organic solvents recovery process |
| SW 325 | Uncured resin waste containing organic solvents or heavy metals including epoxy resin and phenolic resin |
| SW 326 | Waste of organic phosphorus compound |
| SW 327 | Waste of thermal fluids (heat transfer) such as ethylene glyco |
| SW 401 | Spent alkalis containing heavy metals |
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| SW 402 | Spent alkalis with pH more or equal to 11.5 which are corrosive or hazardous |
| SW 403 | Discarded drugs containing psychotropic substances or containing substances that are toxic, harmful, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic |
| SW 404 | Pathogenic wastes, clinical wastes or quarantined materials |
| SW 405 | Waste arising from the preparation and production of pharmaceutical product |
| SW 406 | Clinker, slag and ashes from scheduled wastes incinerator |
| SW 407 | Waste containing dioxins or furans |
| SW 408 | Contaminated soil, debris or matter resulting from cleaning-up of a spill of chemical, mineral oil or scheduled wastes |
| SW 409 | Disposed containers, bags or equipment contaminated with chemicals, pesticides, mineral oil or scheduled wastes |
| SW 410 | Rags, plastics, papers or filters contaminated with scheduled wastes |
| SW 411 | Spent activated carbon excluding carbon from the treatment of potable water and processes of the food industry and vitamin production |
| SW 412 | Sludges containing cyanide |
| SW 413 | Spent salt containing cyanide |
| SW 414 | Spent aqueous alkaline solution containing cyanide |
| SW 415 | Spent quenching oils containing cyanides |
| SW 416 | Sludges of inks, paints, pigments, lacquer, dye or varnish |
| SW 417 | Waste of inks, paints, pigments, lacquer, dye or varnish |
| SW 418 | Discarded or off-specification inks, paints, pigments, lacquer, dye or varnish products containing organic solvent |
| SW 419 | Spent di-isocyanates and residues of isocyanate compounds excluding solid polymeric material from foam manufacturing process |
| SW 420 | Leachate from scheduled waste landfill |
| SW 421 | A mixture of scheduled wastes |
| SW 422 | A mixture of scheduled and non-scheduled wastes |
| SW 423 | Spent processing solution, discarded photographic chemicals or discarded photographic Wastes |
| SW 424 | Spent oxidizing agent |
| SW 425 | Wastes from the production, formulation, trade or use of pesticides, herbicides or biocides |
| SW 426 | Off-specification products from the production, formulation, trade or use of pesticides,herbicides or biocides |
| SW 427 | Mineral sludges including calcium hydroxide sludges, phosphating sludges, calcium sulphite sludges and carbonates sludges |
| SW 428 | Wastes from wood preserving operation using inorganic salts containing copper, chromium or arsenic of fluoride compounds or using compound containing chlorinated phenol or creosote |
| SW 429 | Chemicals that are discarded or off-specification |
| SW 430 | Obsolete laboratory chemicals |
| SW 431 | Waste from manufacturing or processing or use of explosives |
| SW 432 | Waste containing, consisting of or contaminated with peroxides |
| SW 501 | Any residues from treatment or recovery of scheduled wastes |
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