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  MALAYSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS TAKING ACTIONS FOR GOMBAK RIVER

Thursday 20/09/2018



KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 (Bernama) -- Close to 18 social media influencers turned up on a bright sunny morning to be part of the global World Rivers Day celebration and rolled their sleeves up to volunteer for the River of Life Log Boom Clean-Up Day.

The clean-up was held along a specific stretch of the Gombak River whereby the main activity was to educate and share knowledge with the social media influencers on the plight of city rivers such as the Klang River.  Apart from collecting floating organic and solid waste and debris found in the boom trap, the social media influencers were also required to sort out the collected debris through a segregation process to understand the composition of the kind of wastes that are often dumped in to rivers.

“We often pass by rivers, not taking a second look because rivers today have changed a lot. What was once pristine and clear, is now severely polluted, and often it’s because of human impacts. We hope that this activity will stir the social media influencers to look at the circle of life and we hope that this experience will be shared through their blogs and stories and raise more consciousness about better river care in the country,” said Yasmin Rasyid, president of EcoKnights, a local non-profit environmental organizaiton which organized the event.

Apart from EcoKnights, this event also saw the partnership and participation from the Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKL) and the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID).

The clean-up and log boom waste segregation exercise saw the social media influencers collecting close to 87.8 kg of trash in the river, where a huge percentage (65%) of the trash was mostly organic waste, while the rest (30.9kg) were plastic, polystyrene, paper, textile, glass and metal. Both the collection and segregation of waste were conducted for 40 minutes.

For more information and related photos: http://bit.ly/ROL_PR_medialogboom 

Source: EcoKnights

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Name: Emirul Redzuan / Fadly Bakhtiar
Tel : 017-3045254 / 017-2279270
Email : emirul@ecoknights.org.my / fadly@ecoknights.org.my 

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