Agamuthu Pariatamby

Agamuthu Pariatamby, Professor Agamuthu FASc, is currently at Sunway University. Previously he was Professor in University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur for 44 years. He is appointed as the High Level End Foreign Expert position with the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, and is also visiting professor to Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China. The other affiliations of Professor Agamuthu are Chairman of Organization for Climate Change (OFCC), Vice-President/International Advisory Board Member of Society of Solid Waste Management Experts in Asia and Pacific Islands (SWAPI), Fellow of Academy of Sciences Malaysia, Senior Editor in Chief of Waste Management & Research, and Editor of Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. Professor Agamuthu has written more than 19 books on waste management and has published more than 450 papers . His research interests include plastics and microplastics, marine debris, plastic biodegradation, municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, industrial waste, agriculture waste, electronic waste, circular Economy, 3R, composting, and anaerobic digestion.

Publications

Sustainable Waste Management Challenges in Developing Countries
Agamuthu Pariatamby, Fauziah Shahul Hamid, Mehran Sanam Bhatti. © 2020. 586 pages.
As global waste generation increases at a rapid rate, there is a dire need for waste management practices such as collection, disposal, and recycling to protect from...
Waste Management Challenges in Malaysia
Agamuthu Pariatamby, Mehran Sanam Bhatti. © 2020. 37 pages.
Malaysia, an upper-middle class country, populated with approximately 31 million people generated nearly 13.9 million tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) at per capita of 1.23...
Waste Management in Developing Countries: An Overview
Agamuthu Pariatamby, Mehran Sanam Bhatti, Fauziah Shahul Hamid. © 2020. 26 pages.
This chapter summarizes and compares the current situation of waste management practices in developing countries as reported in other chapters of this book. Due to increasing...