Recycling Bins

few metres from Queen's Gate and at the TNB substation on King’s Crescent stand 3 bins each. These are MPPJ's recycle bins for Tiara Damansara .

The brown bin is for glass – glass bottles, glass crockery and drinking glasses. The blue bin is for paper – newspapers, cardboard and books. The orange bin is for aluminium cans and plastic drinking bottles.

Residents do use these bins, which fill up to the brim between 10-14 days. The Management then makes a call to MPPJ, which sends a lorry to collect the items.

The Selangor State government has appealed to residents to reduce the use of non-biodegradable materials so as to save on creating new landfills.

State Environment Committee chairman, Datuk Ch'ng Toh Eng said it was getting progressively harder to find landfills after the two in Kundang and Bukit Chembong were recently filled.

Every pocket of land available now was either surrounded by development or would be, in the next few years, he added. Residents or house buyers would protest vehemently against the opening of landfills not far from their homes, he said.

Selangor residents were also on record as being among the highest waste generators in Malaysia, Datuk Ch'ng revealed.

The Selangor State government was fighting an uphill battle providing sufficient landfills in Selangor since such a high volume of waste was produced daily.

One solution was to persuade residents to reduce waste by adopting stringent recycling and re-using materials.

So, Tiarans, do your bit for the state and the environment, and recycle. Drop your recyclables into the three coloured bins at Queen's Gate and the TNB substation on King’s Crescent.