Sorting facility along Sg Klang to tackle pollution

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A river plastic waste sorting facility along Sungai Klang, Selangor, was officially unveiled on Wednesday (July 2) in efforts to cut down plastic waste going into landfills.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A dedicated plastic waste sorting facility has officially opened along

00:09Sungai Klang in Selangor, marking a significant step in reducing plastic

00:12waste sent to landfills and promoting recycling. Natural Resources and

00:17Environmental Sustainability Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Dr. Ching Tu

00:21said the facility, developed by the Ocean Cleanup, is the organization's first

00:26purpose-built site for sorting plastics collected by its river cleaning vessels,

00:30with an emphasis on recycling. The initiative is a collaboration between

00:34the Ocean Cleanup and its partners, Landasan Lumayan Senderian Berhad, LLSB, J&K

00:42Wonderland Foundation, and Coca-Cola Malaysia.

00:45With the new improved log boom, basically cover like 90-80% of the river, so we are

00:49able to catch more than 90%, so then the catch will go up. So maybe there's less

00:55stress in the river, but we will catch more. And then hopefully, in due time, like

01:00more programs, like society, then that amount will go down again. And that's what we

01:06are basically hoping.

01:07Klang Royal City Council MBDK Mayor Datuk Abd Hamid Hussain, who officiated the launch

01:12on Wednesday, said the project demonstrated the power of multi-stakeholder

01:16collaboration.

01:17Fasiliti ini menyokong pendekatan ekonomi kita dengan penyediakan ruang khusus

01:21untuk pengasingan dan memproses sistem plastik dan organik yang diketip dan sungai

01:25secara sistematik. Ini bukan sahaja mengurangkan keberuntungan kepada tapak

01:29perusahaan malah membantu mengurangkan pengepasan karbon dan juga pencemaran air. Jadi,

01:34fasiliti ini bukan sahaja menyumbang kepada penyelit dalam sekitar dan juga memberi manfaat

01:39langsung kepada komuniti setempat dan ianya membantu mengurangkan sisa ke laut,

01:44menyekatkan kecegapan kita semula serta membuka perlahan pekerjaan tetap kepada

01:48penduduk.

01:49Operated by LLSB, the facility will process waste collected by Interceptor 002, a solar-powered

01:55river cleaning vessel equipped with a log boom system designed to trap debris

01:59before it reaches the ocean.

02:00So, apa yang kita buat ini adalah kita nak demonstratkan satu sistem pengurusan

02:06sisa peperja sungai yang lestari dan ia akan dapat mengurangkan sampah ke

02:11landfill sebab macam plastik ini kan, kalau kita hantar ke landfill, berapa lama,

02:16berapa tahun ini nak ambil, nak compost. Yang sorting facility ini,

02:19facility ini lah. Yang pertama khusus untuk menguruskan sisa peperja sungai.

02:24With support from CNH Industrial and Orca Chica Malaysia, some of the collected

02:29plastic will be transformed into construction materials, granules and pellets,

02:33supporting a circular economy approach.

02:37Amanda Lin, Senior Director of Franchise Operations for the Coca-Cola Company in Singapore, Malaysia

02:43and Brunei, said the initiative aligns with the company's regional commitment to prevent

02:49plastic from entering the ocean.

02:50The company is very committed to trying to drive bottle-to-bottle recycling, because it

02:55is actually very important for us. The ability for us to create the right infrastructure is

03:00important because it helps the entire value chain be more effective as well. So we stand

03:05here today not just to say we are very grateful to be a partner, but it is also to say let's

03:10find other ways for us to be able to drive a stronger value chain through public-private

03:15partnerships from the upstream as well as the downstream.

03:18To date, the Ocean Cleanup's Interceptor 002 and 005 have removed nearly 3,000 tons of waste from

03:25the Klang River as it flows through Kuala Lumpur's industrial areas.

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