You can recycle almost anything nowadays, and get rewarded for it!

Interested in Changing Trash to Cash? Or Cool items, Cameras, Gift Vouchers?
Here's your chance to do it! And you can practically recycle anything under the sun nowadays! Read on to find out!

Heads up! The prizes!




Now, what treasures do you have to find from your home to be eligible for the prizes?





Simple isn't it?
If you're interested to know more about this programme, drop me a line/mail :-)

Give me your details and Email and I'll pass your particulars over to the person in charge.

In BRIEF-
How it works.
Register as a member online here http://recycleandreward.wordpress.com/register/

You'll be given a recycle sack with a calender as a free gift.

Collect recyclable items such as these - separate them in plastic bags

You can then check your Account and Point Details here
http://www.recycleandreward.my/logon

Once you get enough points, just redeem them via this channel
http://recycleandreward.wordpress.com/redeem-prize/

p.s.- Chingfong It's onli Avai in the klang Valley only at the moment :-)

Tentative: Environmental Carnival

Please Have a read through and give me your comments!

Thank you, and forward the message to people who you think may be interested in implementing this!
A copy of this document is available in Word format, downloadable at
http://www.4shared.com/file/114393696/5e664d21/Proposal_Environmental_Carnival.html

Potential committee Candidates!

Sinchee
Wen Ying
Chai peng
Huan Yan (Ming wei)
Rachel
Hui Fang
Jane
Bin hoo
Wu hui
Jia Ying
Hui Fang
Yan Chin
Ru hui
Zhi yi
Ying Quan
Siew Khing
Su yan
Soon Hooi
Thomson

please suggest additional candidates, especially our Malay and Indian friends who you think maybe interested! Also any 3rd Year or 5th Year Students that are active in Tzuchi Association
Repost this note if you can. :-)

Details of the programme

Proposal Of Environmental Carnival

1) Environmental Movie Screening
Entrance ticket = recycle items e/g 2kg of newspapers etc
(Get tickets and a badge in exchange)

Choice of movies
An inconvenient truth by Al gore
11th Hour by Leonardo Dicaprio
“Home” by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

- A research on the respective movies should be made with a summary
- it should be included with a Q&A session

(consider including Subtitles in Malay and Chinese )

2) What each of us can do (a multimedia presentation after the movie)

Title: A drop in the Ocean?
- hand outs will be given during the presentation
- detailing small lifestyle changes that students can make living in the hostels.


3) 2nd Multimedia presentation
- Recorded Video- “When I was small”
- detailing what has changed from the 1980’s till now in terms of the weather, the
environment and human relations etc
eg- when I was small our childhood was filled with kite-flying, hide and seek, now everyone has their hearing plugged up with earphones

When I was small we had tadpoles and guppies in drains and rain puddles… now we only have mud and sludge

We will collect video/ Audio/ Blog recordings of these memories
This effort is a joint effort between UM, USM and UKMMC (organized by E=MC2)
If it is successful, we have journalists in our ranks that can help publish our effort to the Mainstream Media
if that doesn't work out, we will always have YOUTUBE :-)

4)Exhibition of Environmental Products
- What are the products that are relevant to us students or doctors
- What can attract the companies/ societies to come
- Research on the exhibition during the Eco Film Festival organized by the Eco Knights
http://www.ecoknights.com/content/blogcategory/29/66/
- Bazaar? What should be sold?

Exhibition of Environmental NGOs and groups

5)Contests? Research on the feasibility of a contest.
- any interest?
- theme
- Sponsorship of prizes?



6) Changes in KTDI (cooperate with JAKSA Ktdi)
- polystyrene and plastic bad use
: Information : The danger of Polystyrene.. contact with heat become styrene, a
Carcinogen
: Encourage students to bring their own Tupperware to buy food from café’s or dine in
to enjoy discounts
: If opt for polystyrene must pay 20 cents extra (implemented in USM)
: Consider alternatives to Polystyrene ( a biodegradable type made from Palm oil waste)
- Introduction of Vegetarian food to other Ethics
(You are What you Eat)
Incorporate Ethnic Relations, as in a Forum ala Interfaith Forum held in Dk1 KCKL
when we were in 2st Year :
Title : What is Halal food, what is Vegetarian food?

Successful implementation in Wahid, move on to Kazema and Besta


Installing a recycling centre in KTDI itself, (area behind Kafe/ Underneath Surau)
- Funds
- Sponsorship
- Collection servuces
- Cooperate with Rhea Corp

7) Additional programmes (recommendation from Prof Harlina)
A visit to Radicare Waste disposal facility for Medical Students
include visits to other centres/ places on the one day trip


Selection of the Date of the event
- Away from Exams and holidays,
- Ensure no clash with other programmes.
-maybe as a complementary programme in a mega programme such as Warisan Mesra?

Publisiti- PERSIAP (facebook and blog)
- KTDI (JAKSA)

Can incorporate Merit in this programme?
I will try to discuss with Fadhli

(Incorporate this the Racial Harmony theme ?)


Download the word file to Email to your friends at
http://www.4shared.com/file/114393696/5e664d21/Proposal_Environmental_Carnival.html

Thank you very much,

sincerely Kuan Yew

Is it a Malaysian culture to litter?- KL's Rubbish. (Cf. UKM's Trash)

In Kuala Lumpur, the City Hall has hit out at irresponsible revellers who littered Jalan Sultan Ismail during the Christmas eve celebration.

City Hall director-general Datuk Salleh Yusup said though the public had a right to party they should not go overboard and dirty the place.

Trash city: Jalan Bukit Bintang practically awash in a sea of rubbish left behind by Christmas revellers.

“We had a tough time clearing the mess left behind by these irresponsible revellers. They obviously do not bother about cleanliness and left the mess for others to clean up.

Thousands of people flocked to Bukit Bintang area on Christmas eve, causing the usually clean area littered with aerosol cans used in the Christmas revelry.

IS IT a MALAYSIAN CULTURE to LITTER?

Hopefully these individuals are celebrated and their efforts coordinated...

apartment block

As I have been living in an apartment too for the last two years.. I realise how much rubbish a household can generate and I know there is something that can be done about it.

Below's a tireless recyclist who is very very hebat.

Yet, Hopefully someday some recycling company will realise they'll be hitting a jackpot if they can outsource someone to collect recyclables from all apartment units and compensate the residents for it. The trouble comes in coordinating with the apartment management who are more concerned about security issues. In the meantime the rubbish collectors are having a hard time trying to separate the organic trash from the recyclables. It helps tp give them income but if there is a project that could include them somewhere in the recycle chain the process would be much more efficient and they would have a better income.

This is certainly do-able but I haven't really sit down and figure it out. Hopefully I'll get a brainwave soon and help sell the idea to the relevant parties. In the meantime let's use less plastic and paper!

(=^.^=)

From the-Star...

By OH ING YEEN
WHILE some of us are still deep in slumber, Chin Chu Lin is up and about at 6am every day, pushing her trusty trolley from unit to unit to collect recyclable items at the apartment block where she lives in Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya.

“There are three blocks and 18 floors per block. My friend gave me the trolley to ease the burden of carrying things around. Before this, I carried all the recyclable items and walked to and from my apartment unit.

“It’s just a daily exercise for me. If I see something that can be recycled, I’ll pick it up. I’m used to it as I’ve been doing it for the past five to six years,” said Chin, a member of the Taiwan Buddhist Tzu-Chi Foundation Malaysia.

She collects the items and sends them for recycling every third Saturday of the month. The proceeds are donated to charity organisations.

Thus, before the third Saturday, her house is filled with old newspapers, old clothes and unwanted furniture. Even the walkway outside her apartment is filled with recyclable items.
Starting young: Twins Qi Fong (right) and Qi Ee helping load recyclable items on Chin’s trolley at the apartment block in Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya, recently.

“At first, my husband was not happy with what I was doing as it cluttered the house. So, I did it secretly. But now he understands and even helps,” she said, adding that her 15-year-old daughter helped her sort out the items.

“At first, I had to explain to neighbours what I was doing as they thought I was making a profit by selling the items.”

Many now understand she is just doing her part for the environment.

Some residents even place recyclable items outside her unit the night before.

In the past four years, Chin’s neighbour Anna Lim has been setting aside old newspapers, bottles and plastic items for her to collect.

Lim supports Chin’s cause as it is for charity and creates awareness on preserving the environment.

“As a teacher, I tell my students to conserve the environment. Recycling helps save trees,” she said.

Aside from collecting recyclable items, Chin’s efforts are a way to create awareness on the importance of environment conservation.

Children at her apartment block are influenced by her green efforts and help her sort out the recyclable items.

Among them are twin brothers Tan Qi Fong and Tan Qi Ee, both seven, who always help load old newspapers on Chin’s trolley.

“They help sort out the recyclable items and pile them up,” said housewife Chan Fong Ping about her twin sons.

Chin is glad that youths in her apartment block are helping her out.

“I hope more people will recycle to conserve the environment. It is just a small effort to aid Mother Nature,” she said, adding: “I’ll continue doing what I’m doing for as long as I can.”

Eco film Fest 2008!

--This is a partially completed post!-- hehe... will be updated with additional explanations and photos!





This is the Eco film Fest held at Akademi Seni Warisan Kebangsaan Malaysia (ASWARA) within walking distance from Dataran Merdeka...

which reminds me aobut my RM15 taxi fare there (without meter!) and RM7 taxi fare return (with Meter). Its in an obscure place so I thought its mighty far away hence the taxi.... Sob.




-that's Bread made without yeast/ eggs and---- added Charcoal?-



Me sporting Earrings... Haha.. Should have little birds jumping inside them! Coz that's what they're used for...by the aborigines, Hand crafted with a cleverly concealed trapdoor.. each of them selling at the cheap cheap price of Rm18!


Arr... the photos been photoshoped by it seems I posted the original version whc is so dark... sorry! that's the rep for the OA! (orang Asli!) She is a not a middle(wo)wan but she helps to sell off the hand mad eitems of this stall and all the profits are returned to the maker of the handicraft! Hence the name stickers over the Bookmarks!-- See below!

Support the REAL indigenous people of Malaysia than the people who too often call themselves BUMIPUTRAs who like Khir Toyo and his cronies are from 1st generation descendents of Indonesions, Arabians , Pakistanis. (or so I heard). The real Prince of the Soil are the indigenious people of Malaysia! And their life is being exploited by logging concessionaries and their womanfolk are being mistreated, abused by the people working in the logging industry. Support them!







this is a free movie screening....
The garbage revolution is about a family that keeps their trash for 3 months and where does the trash really go to after the Garbageman takes them away? A real eyeopener



Reza Salleh and Mia Palencia!


The Handsome ReZa salleh in person! nice vocals!



Oh And check out the Corn Cake Kings! Below

And Reza's vocals which ends so so nicely! (I'm getting thick skinned here!)