Record collection of rubbish on island in Penang, a dozen dogs found too

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People don't just dump rubbish on Pulau Gazumbo, a tiny island just off the Penang Bridge, but dogs as well.   Twelve dogs have been found to be abandoned on the island to fend for themselves during a cleanup programme by the Penang Island City council which says efforts are now underway to rescue the strays.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A team of over 100 volunteers and nature lovers visited Pulau Gazumbo, located next to the

00:08Penang Bridge, for a massive clean-up on Sunday.

00:11They discovered that not only the island was strewn with rubbish, but there were also 12

00:16dogs in need of rescue.

00:22The organizers of the clean-up program said they had made plans to save the dogs that

00:26are being left to fend for themselves on the island.

00:56The dogs could have been abandoned on the island after fish farmers stopped operating

01:00their aquaculture projects.

01:02The island was formed from sand build-up when the Penang Bridge was built from 1983 to 1986.

01:10Over the years, the island has become an eyesore with garbage washed ashore.

01:15During the clean-up, the volunteers collected some 1.22 metric ton of rubbish.

01:23Penang City Mayor Datuk A Rajendran said the record collection is a disappointment

01:28as the public continue to throw rubbish into the sea.

01:32He said most of the rubbish collection consisted of plastic bottles apart from discarded fishermen's

01:38nets that entangled and killed marine life.

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