if there’s ever gonna be a good reason for malaysians to recycle, it’ll definitely be for the money

okay, maybe this view of mine is rather stereotypical, but i’m gonna prove that i’m right on this

i’d like to state though that the group of people i’m referring to are those of our parents age

tonight, i went shopping at KLCC and bought this really nice pair of shoes from nose (a homegrown shoe retail outlet)

when i was at the cashier, this one salesperson told that if i were to bring the shopping bag the next time i came to buy shoes, then  i’d be entitled to have a rebate of 10%

a good idea, i’d say it’s definitely a good marketing strategy and one smart move to help mother nature

back to the main idea of this post, i  reckon that if there’s no financial benefit  involved, this whole  save- the environment thing will just go down the drain

take, old newspapers, for example

we all know how common it had once been to hear the blaring of loudspeakers coming from a van/ lorry cruising through each and every street in a neighbourhood

repeatedly, one would hear the same words comin out from the speakers and growing up with all these i’m sure many of you would’ve known the words by heart, even if you don’t understand the meaning of it

this is what the recorded voice would say, “Collect old newspapers, collect old magazines, collect (whatever used reading materials the mind can thing of) and collect old batteries (not papers only… yeah)

for those of you who don’t know, the drivers are actually newspaper collectors who’s gonna pay you for the papers that they are soon to get from any of the people of the houses

for quite some time, collecting newspapers from house to house was a big thing and, even then, recycling wasn’t a common practice

we, malaysians at that time were all about using and throwing things; being wasteful

but, when it comes to old newspapers, people are just too glad to be involved

it’s pretty obvious that these people  don’t give a damn bout the environment or whatsoever, all they care for about is the money that they are going to be able to make

there’s still one last (but not least, i suppose) instance of this malaysian attitude that i wanna show you guys here

if you are a frequent visitor to roadside stalls and coffee shops in malaysia, you’ve probably seen or experienced enough to know that people just LOVE to make money with the name of charity

i’m not really sure if all of us always decide to ignore these people because we know these people are liars, or simply for the reason that these people are FUCKIN ANNOYING to disturb when we are busy working our taste buds to satiate our hunger, or thirst

hmmm… maybe we just DON”T CARE  of people that do really NEED our HELP somewhere out there???

from how charity is used in the earning of money, once again i’m back to recycling (add money to the equation)

there’s this one famous welfare society that i’m sure most malaysians would’ve heard of before: Xim Phou Moon (XPM), who is always having all those kinds of drive for people to ‘recycle for charity’… yeah, right

so, do you think that these people would do something charitable without gaining anything in return??? And, recycling too at that.

man, there’s  no way in hell. Not now, not EVER.

this is what they do.

they’d have some kind of large collection bins at random places, especially around housing estates and by putting these bins everywhere one could dump whatever old things that they wanna recycle into it… the items would then be so- called be given to the needy for use

in actual fact, these people would make profit here, not recycle… well, even if they do, it’d be only a small part of the collected items

saying this, i do have pretty good evidence to support my words

my family and I used to quite often give away old and used reading materials to this society

however, after quite some time, we stopped being kind enough to not throw all these stuff away. Why, you ask?

that’s because  somehow, we found out that while we people are giving away stuff for charity (having been made to believe that) , the people  of this society, instead,  take the stuffs for themselves and sell it once again at a price that is of much profit

AND, to show you how profitable this act is, the signs are everywhere;

this society do have many lorries to help those who want to donate bulky items by helping to transport the items to their centres, plus they have many of the shops in which they resell the items that are donated by the public

so now you know why i think as i do, and with that,  i don’t think that the day for me to be proven wrong would come if  the majority of malaysians still think that money is everything

a shoutout from me to my fellow malaysians

Don’t recycle, or try to save our planet if  all you want to see at the other end is ONLY money, money and more money.

Everyone’s gotta do their part in saving and caring for the environment

Start trying your best to go green from today onwards

I’ve been doing all I can and wish there’d be even more for me to do *sigh*

At least i can blog about it =K

We, malaysians should make being environment- conscious a part of us and let the world know that