Ridding S’kan village of the floating garbage

SANDAKAN: State Health and People’s Well-being Minister cum Assemblyman of Tanjong Papat, Datuk Frankie Poon and Member of Parliament Sandakan, Vivian Wong promised Sim-Sim Water Village residents their garbage problem will be resolved within a week.

Poon arranged with his staff to engage a contractor to clean up the drifted garbage, to prevent the spread of dengue, which can be caused by the stagnant water trapped in the garbage.

Many factors may have led to the drifted garbage problem; however, the main reason is due to the lack of awareness, towards the sea garbage pollution, among the people. They think that all the waste thrown into the sea will eventually disappear.

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Consequently, tonne of garbage settle along the coastline.

The garbage in that area is generally made up of beverage bottles, plastic bags, food packaging bags, clothing, etc. These human waste would not decompose and disappear automatically. “If we do not clean up the garbage now, it will keep existing, and the situation will become worse.” Poon said.

“This is reality, act now and do something before the situation gets worse,”.

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Poon said in the past two years, they had worked closely with the local council and came up with various strategies to deal with the garbage problem at Sim-Sim Water Village; such, as constructing nets to trap garbage, having the council arrest and fine litterbugs, distributing garbage bags to every household, building garbage chutes, organising a large-scale cleaning up activities, raising local residents’ awareness on recycling concept and etc.

Nevertheless, Poon said that although there are many ways to manage the garbage problem, to be successful it requires the joint efforts of local residents and relevant parties. He reminded the public to protect the marine ecological environment and pay have great concern for the environment to reduce man-made pollution.

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