Makeshift recycling centre a health hazard for schoolkids put off by awful smell


Foul condition: Anilan (left) and Alumni Association chairman N. Selvaraju checking out the plastic bottles piled up behind the school beside Sungai Pinang in George Town. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Some irresponsible people have set up a “makeshift” recycling centre behind a Tamil primary school to collect recyclable waste trapped by a trash boom across a river.

The mounds of collected waste have created a mosquito breeding site that has plagued the school children of SJK(T) Ramathasar for years, on top of the foul smell.

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