By Norrasyidah Arshad
SHAH ALAM, Oct 22 — Selangor will be the first state in Malaysia to develop an industrial park that requires participating factories to build a Centralised Wastewater Treatment Facility to treat the effluents they release, said the Menteri Besar.
Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said Invest Selangor Bhd is in the process of refining the concept — one that is based on an incentive mechanism — to ensure that Selangor is on par with other developed counties in the area of industrial park management.
The move is part of the Selangor government’s efforts to preserve and conserve the environment, said Amirudin.
“Based on its identity as a developed state and an industrial-oriented economic power, the Selangor government also welcomes investors who use the ‘circular economy’ model of production to recycle waste into useful products.
“It allows for natural resources to be recycled and will reduce the need to use new resources,” he said when officiating the 2021 National Environment Day celebration that was held online on October 22.
Amirudin said to ensure the environmental ecosystem is always protected, the state has set up a Standing Committee on Environmental Action chaired by Hee Loy Sian, which is responsible for any state development proposals and projects.
He explained that the Selangor government has also adapted 17 sustainable development goals in accordance with the United Nations’s Voluntary Sub-National Review report.
“Selangor has also allocated RM360 million in the 2021 Budget for its water resources. We also gazetted the Selangor Water Management Authority (Amendment) Enactment 2020, the Raw Water Guarantee Scheme, and identified 44 sites that are under the watch of Friends of Rivers and members of the community.
“Local councils (PBTs) are also actively involved in implementing the smart city and low-carbon city programmes to minimise the effects of global warming and climate change,” he said.
