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134 MSM MALAYSIA HOLDINGS BERHAD WHO WE ARE STATEMENT & DISCUSSION BY OUR LEADERS HOW WE OPERATE
ANNUAL INTEGRATED REPORT 2021

ENVIRONMENT

INITIATIVES

Reducing Waste in the Community Hazardous (Scheduled) Waste collected by
licensed contractor for recovery (tonnes)

As part of MSM’s 2021’s sustainability journey and a
step-up of our ESG framework, MSM has taken a more active 15.80 15.49 11.19
role in participating in initiatives and action to reduce pollution,
waste and resource use. In November 2021, MSM Prai took
part in a Household E-Waste Collection Hero Competition
organised by the Penang DOE and in collaboration with Majlis
Bandaraya Seberang Perai and Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang. 2019
2020
MSM Prai took it as an opportunity to raise awareness for 2021
staff on ESG topics while fortifying ties with the DOE.
In conjunction with the National Environmental Day themed As previously reported, we continued to track the hazardous
Environment: Our Responsibility, MSM Prai bagged third waste collected by our licensed contractor for recovery
place in the Industry category with approximately 500kg of and observed a 28% decrease in FY2021 from FY2020.
electric and electronic waste (e-waste) collected within five The remaining hazardous waste from our operations were
days from 7 November until 12 November 2021 by more than disposed and handled through other methods such as
400 MSM Prai employees via the strategic promotion of recycling, chemical treatment, incineration, or sent to landfills.
environmental awareness programme. MSM Prai took its own
initiative to participate in the competition and the team effort
and commitment shown by its employees demonstrate that More measures are in the pipeline to
everyone in MSM is playing an active role in contributing to
MSM’s ESG agenda. promote the 3Rs across the Group and
reduce environmental impacts of our
To further drive the ESG initiatives for a better and greener
environment, MSM launched the 3R: Reduce, Reuse and products throughout their lifecycles.
Recycle Programme in early January 2022. More measures Further details of the initiatives and
are in the pipeline to promote the 3Rs across the Group and
reduce environmental impacts of our products throughout activities planned in FY2022 will be
their lifecycles. Further details of the initiatives and activities disclosed in our next report.
planned in FY2022 will be disclosed in our next report.

The diagrams provide an overview of the aspects of waste
management we have monitored and tracked over the last
three years. We recognise that there are still gaps on how
waste generation data has been collected and tracked in the
respective operations and we are stepping up how we track
and measure our progress on waste generation data from
FY2022 onwards as we continue to improve our data analysis
and tracking methods for more consistency moving forward.