The department of environment (JAS) will be implementing a pilot project for the sustainable disposal of vehicles called the Authorised Automotive Treatment Facility (AATF), reported Bernama.
This facility will carry out the dismantling of components, especially those containing scheduled waste, from vehicles which have had their registration revoked by the ministry of transport, said JAS director-general Norlin Jaafar. “The components will be segregated for the purposes of re-use, recycling or re-acquisition and final disposal,” Norlin said in a statement as quoted by the news wire.
At present, there are around 60,000 vehicles nationwide which have been abandoned in a state of disrepair due to difficulty in acquiring spare parts, and also because the vehicle owners are unaware of the vehicle disposal process, according to the road transport department (JPJ).
Abandoned vehicles contained scheduled waste such as lead-acid batteries, lithium batteries, electronic components, asbestos from brake pads, used engine oil and cooling fluids, which need to be well managed in order to ensure environmental sustainability.
There have been 15,019 cases of abandoned vehicles reported to the public complaints bureau between 2014 and 2017, said minister of environment and water Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man as reported by Berita Harian. The growth in new vehicle registrations have also contributed to the rise in the number of abandoned vehicles, according to the bureau.
As of November 2017, there were no fewer than eight million abandoned vehicles across the country in total, the natural resources and environment ministry (NRE) said at the time. In 2018, the government said it was planning to devise a new standard operating procedure for abandoned vehicles to be scrapped within a month of being served notice.
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Maybe jpj can tow off those cars and do open tender for people who needs the parts. Put notice, 3 months no reply, contact owner. Nothing done in 2 weeks, tow off and auction it off.
Left the remaining shell after removing those plastic and fluids, drop them into the sea for coral breeding grounds like those grand tour guys.
Govt must imposed car scrapping policy. Cars more than 10 years old should be scrapped or export out. To stop all these abandoned old jalopies..
Are you car seller? What is the impact to the environment for such consumption? You can’t maintain a car does not means others can’t.
That will be under local council jurisdiction to tow abandoned vehicle. Selling it for parts will create another problem where once the car is stripped, the basic shell will need to be disposed off too and as we can see there are loads of them lying around.
Towing it will create unnecessary cost such as storage as that will require space. I would like such abandoned vehicle to be disposed off immediately by local council after certain period of notice ( as mentioned in the article ). This will require granting local council the power to do so (esp strip off ownership ) as the article mentioned.
A scrap dealer can buy the vehicle as scrap and the owner will need to go to JPJ with relevant documentation to properly scrap off the car. Problem is that the owner will most probably loose money as to cover the tranportation cost to the scrap yard and they dont want to loose..remember, scrap yard will buy the junk cheap2. However most abandoned vehicles could be passed down to a generation and the rightful owners might no longer be around or being bought without proper ownership transfer.
There is a Waja near my place which have notice on its windscreen as thick as a phonebook but local council havent towed it.
Straight body, good for parts.
Will it allow for me to get spare parts for my vehicle more easily?
Just give finder’s fee. This project will be great success in no time. Besi buruk taukeh will be happy to be business-partner.
Not just cars littering the roadside. There are thousands of abandoned motorbikes too.
Habislah! All my kedai potong bros running unlicensed operations, at ecologically sensitive locations, with underpaid and mostly illegal foreign workers, causing pollution around, will lose their jobs.