YOURSAY | One woman’s fight against the burning of plastic wastes

There are agencies paying lip service to environmental concerns while ordinary people in both rural and urban areas are fighting a losing battle against unscrupulous operators who probably grease enough palms to get away with it.

Time and again in my neighbourhood, I witness this open burning of plastic bottles, old computer parts, even faulty television sets. And there lies our problem - agencies that refuse to carry out their tasks and assemblypersons who couldn't care less of the plight of those under their care. Come the next election, let’s vote them out.Wow, this woman and her compatriots are amazing. Her effort needs to be supported by our environmental agencies and ministry. These are the kind of people we need to help.Under the previous Pakatan Harapan government, minister Yeo Bee Yin was really into safeguarding the environment.

We need a minister who is dedicated and passionate about saving the environment and keeping the rakyat safe.Yes, on this issue, the previous minister had put in much effort to clean up the environment. So far, we haven't heard a pip from her replacement. Their couldn't-care-less attitude is so typical of our public agencies. They don't act until something disastrous happened and then, it's all finger-pointing and knee-jerk reactions.This is what happens when our public service agencies are filled with mostly 'ketuanans' who were employed not because they had the best brains.

In fact, for an area that was previously declared as a ‘no further new development area’ in Selangor after two disasters, there is going to be a new high rise on the slope again.If the Selangor government made this a priority and if those factories were closer to where the VIPs live, the problem would disappear overnight.

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