Silibin Residential..watch out...!!!!!!

This news is about a factory that had been fined by court RM 10000 because of their attitude that has no responsibility to the silibin residential. They discharge their effluent illegally to the monsoon drain.

I am agreed with the court action to fine them. This action must be the warned by the other factories to comply with the regulations. It also a proven that our authority had enforced our regulations since we frequently hear that our authority did not want to be action in this problem.


One of the mechanisms of putting water pollution protection policies into action was the criminal sanction provided by the EQA itself in 1974. A maximum fine of M$ 10,000 or two years' imprisonment or both was imposed for offences related to emitting or discharging any wastes into the atmosphere, polluting the soil or surface of any land or discharging any wastes into inland waters in contravention of acceptable conditions. A further maximum penalty of M$ 1,000 per day will be imposed for each day an offence is continued after a notice from the director-general was served onto the offender, requiring him/her to cease the bad action. An offender is liable to pay a maximum fine of M$ 5,000 or face one year imprisonment and a maximum fine of M$ 500 a day for each day of continuation of such offence in contravention of acceptable conditions. Finally, an offender is liable to pay a maximum fine of M$ 25,000 or two years imprisonment for offences related to the spill of any oil into any parts of the sea outside the territorial waters of Malaysia if such spill washed into the Malaysian river waters.


The Malaysian government has introduced economic instruments to achieve sustainable development in conjunction with water pollution abatement by way of promoting self-regulation on the part of the sectoral industries in the country. The strategies help ensure more participation of industrial sectors in environmental protection of water by themselves. The principal objective of recycling instrument is to encourage the industries to minimize discharged wastes and conserve resources via the recycling method. The strategy taken is to prescribe a minimum percentage of recycled substances that a product must contain. In addition, the products must carry appropriate constituents, method of manufacture and disposal. It is generally believed that this requirement can help conserve resources, particularly water resource, by reducing the amount of waste generated into the environment. It is also thought that through this new mechanism, animal and industrial pollutant wastes can be transformed into useful secondary raw materials.