WHAT A WASTE

Very soon, all Malaysians may have to separate their waste at source or even pay as they throw, thanks to the Solid Waste Management Bill which finally and somehow made it through the doors of Parliament; AND got passed.

This method of separating waste at source is not anything new and has been successfully implemented overseas. In the UK, the garbage collectors will not pick up waste that is not separated.

The QUESTION is, how are the authorities going to implement this in sunny Malaysia?

As it is, the recycling campaign that they spent millions of ringgit on was deemed a failure. Short of going door to door and teaching people how to separate their waste at source, I don't see how we are going to successfully implement the Bill.

Incidently, there is this couple from Penang, MyLene and her husband who have been going around to schools and showing people how the average household can recycle almost ALL their waste - for free.

Perhaps THEIR experience and motivation can be harnessed to train trainers who will then go school to school and teach children and their parents how to recycle and then separate their remaining waste at source.

With the abandonment of Broga Incinerator Project the government has little time to do what needs to be done to prevent large tracks of valuable land from turning into landfills.

Malaysians produce much too much waste and it may be a case of too little too late.