Cleaner Marina Day - Hundreds of students from schools and colleges

Part of the initiative, hundreds of students from schools and colleges across Klang participated.They were jointed the NGO's , government agencies,Edu- cat  and private sector early Saturday morning. They were seen thronging the Pulau Ketam Jetty shore line picking scraps of waste strewn over the rocky area. Then onto fishing boat heading to sea to collect marine debris .The cleaning programme was part of a larger initiative of  Rotary Club of Bukit Tinggi, Klang  http://www.rotarybukittinggi.org/   


Students boarding a boat

Some of the most common debris items found in Port Klang harbour.

- Plastic wrappers

- Styrofoam cups/plates

- Plastic bottles

- small wood
-  Plastic packing materials

Plastic actually decompose rapidly in the Ocean and leaching potencial toxic chemicals such as  Bisphenol A. Possibly threatening Ocean animals and humans. Research found that  plastic breaks in cooler temperature, within a year of the trash hitting the water.





Statistics :-

-  44% of all seabirds eat  plastic apparently by 

    mistake.  

    

- 267 marine species are effected by plastic 

   garbage. 

* Now with invisible threat of toxic chemicals.



                                                                    



Fishing plastic debris



 



Students from Sek Men. ACS Klang

 

Students from college



There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up.

Bottled water - Global consumption is now 200 billion litres a year and only one in five of those plastic bottles is recycled. The total global production of plastic, which was five million tons in the 1950s, is expected to hit 260 million tons this year.

-  The Telegraph. Tuesday 18th October 2011 -

 So how do we turn the tide?