I refer to your report Unsightly refuse and while I agree that some "Rubbish" contractors have been quite indifferent to their jobs, I feel the blame should not be totally assigned to those overworked and underpaid labourers.
Some of the blame should be towards the authorities who fail to provide proper and easily accessible rubbish bins and containers so that the public and residents know where to bring their rubbish to be collected. However, most of the blame should be put on the public and the residents themselves, as most of them ignore assigned rubbish collection areas and haphazardly throw their rubbish at corners and side roads, and at other not so conspicuous places.
In this respect, how do you expect the hard-pressed contractors to know ALL the areas that have the rubbish that have been arbitrarily thrown by selfish and irresponsible people? We, as responsible people should do our part to assist the contractors to do a good job. From the pictures that have appeared in your paper about those rubbish that have been uncollected, can you genuinely say that they have been left at collection points designated by the local authorities? Maybe the local councils should install more CCTV cameras to catch those totally irresponsible culprits.
Only when we behave responsibly can we blame the garbage contractors for being remiss in their jobs. We have to do our part too, to make the country livable.
Monday 19 September 2011
Forests vital for future
It is quite obvious that after reading the letter Forests vital for future and the response by the State Government be reasonable with demands to gazette forests, says Zambry that politicians do not see the real danger of continuing to allow timber logging in areas that are close to our forest reserves, which also act as our water catchment areas feeding life saving water to our people.
We should be asking ourselves if it's possible and practicable to enforce and monitor the logging companies, to ensure they will not encroach onto the reserves when they have finished logging their approved areas. Do we then ask the logging companies to shut down their businesses?
It is better for the country and the environment in the long run, if the politicians make a strong stand against the irreversible destruction to our forests and catchment areas, by insisting that the logging companies stick to the areas they have been given, and gazette the rest of the Main Range as reserves so that nobody in the future can destroy it.
Such a tough policy will also force the logging companies to embark immediately on a 'sustainable' forest regeneration program, to protect their businesses, and get them to implement 'best practices' for sustainable development of the timber industry.
At the present moment, can we truthfully say that Malaysia complies with international guidelines for producing 'sustainable' timber? Sabah, maybe, but not for the rest of our country
Think about it
We should be asking ourselves if it's possible and practicable to enforce and monitor the logging companies, to ensure they will not encroach onto the reserves when they have finished logging their approved areas. Do we then ask the logging companies to shut down their businesses?
It is better for the country and the environment in the long run, if the politicians make a strong stand against the irreversible destruction to our forests and catchment areas, by insisting that the logging companies stick to the areas they have been given, and gazette the rest of the Main Range as reserves so that nobody in the future can destroy it.
Such a tough policy will also force the logging companies to embark immediately on a 'sustainable' forest regeneration program, to protect their businesses, and get them to implement 'best practices' for sustainable development of the timber industry.
At the present moment, can we truthfully say that Malaysia complies with international guidelines for producing 'sustainable' timber? Sabah, maybe, but not for the rest of our country
Think about it
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