Irresponsible individuals have created a makeshift recycling center behind a Tamil primary school in George Town, Malaysia, leading to a build-up of waste that attracts mosquitoes and poses a health risk to students and the surrounding community. The waste is collected from a trash boom installed by the Irrigation and Drainage Department (DID) to prevent floating rubbish from entering the sea.
Foul condition: Anilan and Alumni Association chairman N. Selvaraju checking out the plastic bottles piled up behind the school beside Sungai Pinang in George Town. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star
Sungai Pinang flows through much of this densely populated city here and the Irrigation and Drainage Department laid a trash boom across the river to block floating waste thrown by litterbugs from flowing out to sea.But some people have been gathering all kinds of waste and leaving them there in mounds along the rear wall of SJK Ramathasar for weeks until they collect enough to be sold to recyclers.
A check on The Star’s photographs archive of the Sungai Pinang rubbish boom shows this has started at least since 2022. The school’s board of governors chairman Datuk P. Murugiah said the school security guards have reported seeing unknown people going to the riverside at night with torchlights to rummage through the collected rubbish for recyclable waste.
Penang DID assistant engineer Azhar Abdul Shukor, who went to the riverside yesterday, said warnings will be issued to the contractor to improve the collection procedures.“The workers must leave the wet rubbish on the river’s reserve land for it to drain to prevent leachate from spilling onto roads during transport,” he said.
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