Trash Hero Temerloh

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New Year’s Eve Clean Up!
Date: 31-12-2022
Time: 10.00am
Venue for meet up: In front of Lorien, Lorong Belia 1, Kg. Chemperoh, Janda Baik
Note: bring own trash clamp, own gloves and own water bottle.

Join us for our 48th clean up today!
Date: 18/8/2022
Time: 2 sessions: 8.30am - 9am & 10.30am - 11am
Venue: Along Lorong Belia 1, Kg. Chemperoh, Janda Baik, Pahang.
Starting point: In front of LORIEN, Lorong Belia 1.
Note: Bring your own trashpicking tools including gloves. We will be trashpicking for a short distance at 8.30am from Lorien to Charis and at 10.30 am, from Lorien to the border of Teratak Pak Lah.

Clean Up No.41 @ Taman Tasik Temerloh done on 4/4/2021. 6 volunteers including 1 child collected 23kgs of trash.
Thank you, heroes!

We thank all our volunteers for an awesome job educating while picking trash together! Although the past few months have been quiet due to the pandemic, let’s pray for a cleaner world in 2021 and so forth!

It time to celebrate! 💛💛

This was published in a magazine in 1993. The problem persists, as we know it. Human beings need to change, otherwise, our lives will be changed for us.

Clean Up No.13
Date: 20/12/19 Time: 7.30-8.45am
Venue: Taman Tasik Temerloh
Total no. of heroes: 6 including 1 child
Total trash collected: 27kgs

Here is a summary of our November clean ups:
1. We did 4 clean-ups. 1 per week.
2. Total trash collected: 99.5kg
3. Total volunteers/heroes involved: 39
4. Area of clean-up: Taman Tasik Temerloh.
Thank you to all who attended our clean-ups! You know who you are. Our Heroes.

Do you know what the real purpose of EcoBricks is?

To put people off making them.

They are intended to make people aware of how much of the plastic they buy cannot be recycled. And, because making an EcoBrick properly takes a very long time, the process itself is meant to be off-putting. So, it’s a kind of ‘look how much plastic you buy and look how difficult it is to transform it into anything remotely useful.’

And there’s the other thing: EcoBricks are only remotely useful. What they get made into is a key question. And where. EcoBricks will not, as many believe, be sent abroad to build houses in impoverished places, and if they were then surely that would just be like sending them our rubbish – a way of carrying on consuming the earth and ‘helping’ those made less fortunate largely by our consumption. I’d be angry if this was the case, but it isn't, because the point of EcoBricks is to keep them extremely local.

As I said, EcoBricks are time-consuming to make. Even if you had all the material available straight away, just packing one adequately would take in the region of 4 hours. And the material must all be non-biodegradable and cleaned/washed/dried thoroughly. And then, if the EcoBrick has been made well-enough to be used in a structure, if must be covered in cob if it’s outside (or concrete, but that’s nasty stuff) or it will perish under the sun’s UV light.

Another question: what happens at the end of the EcoBrick structure’s life? Is this not, ultimately, just deferring the inevitable?

One of the ideas behind EcoBricks is that they keep plastics out of ‘energy-intensive’ industrial recycling. I agree that reuse is better than recycling, however that reuse has to be genuinely valuable. I would question anything that takes something recyclable and turns it into something non-recyclable. It’s like crafting: it isn’t ‘reuse’ to raid the recycling bin for material that will be turned into something non-recyclable.

Yes, EcoBricks can be made into benches, raised beds, etc., but really it’s very possible to make those kinds of structures out of materials with considerably smaller environmental footprints than bottles full of plastic.

All that plastic first had to be made, then transported, then bought. Whatever the plastic contained, ditto. If the plastic can’t be recycled – if we are filling EcoBricks with non-recyclable waste – what does this say about our consumer habits?

Wouldn’t it be better to simply not buy the plastic in the first place?

It strikes me that EcoBricks are a way of offsetting our habits – i.e. our guilt. There will, of course, be those that make them out of litter or packaging ‘donated’ from local stores, and make them properly and use them conscientiously and correctly, but let’s be clear: EcoBricks are not a solution to problem plastics.

The problem is consumerism. We can’t carry on like we are. We can’t hope to solve problem plastics through buying problem plastics. That’s like saying we can solve the problem of aviation emissions by taking more flights just so we can offset the carbon we generate.

We need to buy less stuff.

If you want to make an EcoBrick, bear in mind that they are a considerable commitment. Bear in mind that they are so difficult to make effectively that, if you manage to make one, it will probably do its intended job of putting you off making more. Bear in mind that a poorly-made EcoBrick is about as useful as a toilet-paper Thermos flask.

If you don’t have enough stuff to adequately pack an EcoBrick, you’ll fail to make one properly. Not having enough is better than having enough, unless you carry on regardless and make something useless.

If you really want to make a proper EcoBrick, first consider how you would like to be unable to.

Clean Up No.10
28/11/2019 7.30am - 9am
Venue: Taman Tasik Temerloh
Total no.of heroes: 13 including 1 child
Total amount collected: 26 kgs mainly plastic bits, sweet wrappers, plastic bottles, styrofoam containers, fishing lines and cigarette butts.
We were also delightfully surprised by SWCorp manager and staff who came to join us in today's clean up without notice. They also took all the trash collected to be recycled. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Laporan:
Kutipan No.10
28/11/2019 jam 7.30 - 9 pagi
Taman Tasik Temerloh
Jumlah hero: 13 orang termasuk 1 kanak2
Jumlah kutipan: 26 kilo termasuk cebisan plastik, pembalut gula-gula, botol plastik, bekas makanan polistrin, tali tangsi dan puntung rokok.
Tanpa disangka-sangka p**a, Pengurus dan kakitangan SWCorp Temerloh hadir tiba-tiba untuk membantu kami dalam kutipan kali ini. Mereka juga telah mengambil semua bahan kutipan untuk dikitar semula. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Terimakasih kepada semua yang hadir hari ini. Anda Hero!

Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo named top plastic polluters for the second year in a row October 23, 2019 Manila, Philippines - Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the top 3 most

Clean up No. 6
Date: 20/10/2019
Time: 7.30am - 9.15 am
Place: Taman Tasik Temerloh
Heroes: 1 + 1 child
Trash collected: 14.3 kgs mainly plastic bottles, glass bottles, cigarette butts, food containers, plastic ties, slippers and food wrappers.
Special thanks to Little Zawawi (forgot to ask his age) who rigorously helped me pick litter while his mum attended an aerobics session at the park. 👏🏻👏🏻

Clean Up No. 6 starts now. This time we have tweezers made of bamboo, compliments from Trash Hero KL Faisal and Yen!

Clean up No.5
10.10.2019 8.05 - 8.45 am
Venue: Taman Tasik Bandar Temerloh
Heroes: 3 and 1 child
Trash collected: 9.5kg
Come and join us for the next session so that we can do more together!

Beginilah cara membuat batu-bata eko menggunakan botol plastik terpakai dan bahan buangan plastik sekalipakai atau apa-apa bahan lain yang selamat digunakan tetapi tidak dapat dikitarsemula.

Here's how to make ecobricks using used plastic bottles and single use plastic materials and/or other safe materials which cannot be recycled.

TRASH HEROES IPOH

Clean-up No.4
Done on 11/9/2019
Area: Taman Kubang Gajah, Temerloh
Heroes: 2
Total Collected: 1 bag of more than 100 plastic ties (5 kg)

Kami ingin menjemput komuniti Temerloh (dewasa dan kanak-kanak) untuk bersama-sama dengan kami menjadi Trash Hero (Wira Sampah)!
Mudah sahaja: kami akan membuat pengumuman bagi pengutipan sampah seterusnya, anda hanya perlu hadir di tempat dan masa yang ditentukan dan bantu kami membersihkan kawasan awam, satu sampah demi satu sampah, mari kita bersihkan Temerloh BERSAMA-SAMA! Usah lagi asyik menuding jari kepada pihak autoriti atau orang awam lain. Kita cuba tanamkan sifat cintakan kebersihan kawasan awam kita dengan mengutip sampah yang kita lihat di sekeliling kita agar semua akan faham ada yang komuniti harus lakukan.

We are looking for more Temerloh adults and kids to join us as Trash Heroes! We keep it simple: we'll make an announcement here of the next clean up, just appear at the time and place and let's clean up Temerloh one trash at a time, TOGETHER!

Cleanup No.3
Date: 14 May 2019
Area: Stadium, Temerloh
Total heroes: 1
Total collected: 1 bag of 9kg

5-minute clean up!
Cleanup No.2
Date: 7 March 2019 8am - 8.05am
Area: Parking lot, Taman Tasik Bandar, Temerloh
Heroes: 1
Total collected: 1 bag of 5kg

Our first clean up was on 3rd February 2019.
Cleanup No. 1
Total heroes: 2
Total collected: 3 bags (around 21 kg)
Area of clean-up: Dynaton Bukit Angin drain area