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Published on: Sunday, July 25, 2021
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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Preparing waste collected to get transported to mainland.
IT REMINDED me a shell-shock sight of bales of compressed plastic bottles in 2019! My first reaction was: “Waa, that looks familiar upon receipt last Monday of a press release entitled: ‘Reef Check Malaysia sends another 1,500kg of trash off Mantanani; calls for more government help’.”
This mountain of trash that had thrashed Mantanani is nothing new to me anymore.
On August 2019, I followed Swiss-based Race for Water crew to the island in in a maiden trip.
That was the shock cited earlier – just bales and bales of crushed plastic bottles packed under a village house near Reef Check’s Recycling Centre. ....

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