Circular Economy Waste Management Approaches to Enhance Local Community Environment: Cameron Highland, Malaysia

Land development and tourism intensification in Cameron Highlands (CH), Malaysia has led to serious waste management in aiding sustainable local communities’ environment. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Circular Economy (CE) waste approaches could enhance the sustainable environment in CH. This desktop study explores the current waste conditions in CH, identifies CE waste approaches that contribute to the sociodemographics of CH communities in creating a sustainable environment, and recommends the best CE approaches that could enhance the sustainable environment in CH. This study found that sustainable CE waste management using "R" strategies: Reuse, Repair, Repurpose, Recycle, Recover, and Reduce, could help CH local communities and authorities to achieve CE approaches in a sustainable environment in CH. The findings would aid actionable CE policies on waste management strategies tailored to a contextual socio-demographic for CH and achieve CE sustainable development guidelines for Malaysian regions.