Rawang Tolak Incinerator Network (RTI) has raised concerns over the 13th Malaysia Plan’s (13MP) emphasis on waste-to-energy incineration as the government’s central waste solution.

Highlighting that such incinerators require massive investments while burdening communities and locking the nation into a system that depends on waste generation, RTI called for a reassessment of 13MP and abandon “outdated reliance” on incinerators...