Editor’s Note: This article was first published on Macaranga.org and is republished with permission. The landfill looms like a Titan, 27 metres into the sky, a stark symbol of Malaysians’ mounting waste problem. That is as tall as a 4-storey building. Its decaying mound emits a foul stench, all from the waste we generate. This is the Jeram landfill in Selangor, which receives waste from six local councils in the Klang Valley. Within 10 minutes, 30 trucks unload their contents onto the ever-growing heap. Every day, 1,000 rubbish trucks dump, on average, 3.7 million kilogrammes of waste into the…