Trash heroes to the rescue


  • Focus
  • Friday, 21 Jun 2019

The amount of rubbish collected by 18 people in just two hours. (Below) Much of the debris comprised plastics carried in by the tide, with most originating from land.

I MUST confess: I have a tendency to lose count. I was especially reminded of this when I was part of a volunteer clean-up crew picking up trash from a beach just 2km from Berjaya’s The Taaras Beach and Spa Resort on Pulau Redang.

We were picking up marine debris and general rubbish and each of us were told to keep count of how many ‘X’ items we collected as part of the annual Redang Island Conservation Day (RICD) initiative.

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