Simply Throw Your Rubbish- it is not my problem

Like everything else, environmental management, workplace safety and food safety in our country always take a back seat with out policy makers, decision makers and leaders. I am not sure why - maybe if we close our eyes hard enuf and wear goggles, the problems will go away. No one needs to know. Close down the media reporting, keep the villagers happy with cash. Get the developers fat and happy as well. They forgot people do have noses and eyes that can “see” with internet blogging and mobile handphone. So now everything seems to get attention overseas first, how bad it is. As if we never had suffer such bad policing and bad strategies before, the leaders tell us, “oh, we will just shift the whole lot to another island where the people will not be offended” (my words, by the way). Hmm, if we want to be serious with environmental management and public health, the regulatory bodies and safety bodies should be diligent to conduct checks on building sites, factory sites, livestocks for how they manage the waste and sewage. What is that? Just throw everything into the parit, sungai and pipe. The usual “I did not know it is illegal to do so. No one told me”. So, now there is a need to conduct training and public awareness not to throw every thing down the pipe or sungai or longkang. Oily stuff, animal waste, blood, offals, dead carcass, paint, petrol, kerosene – there are a few of materials that must be HANDLED carefully. Animal wastes, like human wastes - should be put into container and need treatment before they can be discharged safely. So don’t place the heads of chickens, ducks, intestines down the usual waterways. There are standards to comply for treatment and monitoring before these effluents are considered safe. There are lots of opportunities for companies to manage wastes, rubbish and effluent in Malaysia. There is opportunities everywhere you look, Ahmad. Don’t wait for the authorities, they are not ready to tackle these issues. Everyone of us is guilty in some way on how we handle our household waste. We tend to bungkus everything and put them in the bin for the rubbish pickup men to handle our waste – including baby diapers and human excreta, used paint, methylated spirit, etc. I feel sorry for the rubbish men. Their sense of smell must have been extinguished the day they started their work. I even saw my neighbour bungkus their dead cat into a large plastic bag and simply threw into the rubbish bin. My kampong instincts went up like a rocket. How can they do this? I went into the rubbish bin, took out the dead cat from the plastic bag and went to my kampong to bury the dead cat. I am not an animal fan, but I think we humans should have some decency to bury our animals rather than send them to the rubbish men for burning, land fill and what not. I feel for the mother earth. I am not sure if we are too educated, too rich, too time poor or too high class not to feel something when the earth said “I have enough of all of you dumping your wastes and effluents on me the usual way. What happens if I did the same to all of you?” Sad but true. So we need education, awareness to discard materials responsibly and not campak everything sewenang-wenang or sesuka hati.
Shake my head everyday to see how we mistreat our mother earth.