Some 2,800 volunteers fanned out along the 5.7km stretch of Gurney Drive, Tanjung Bungah and Batu Ferringhi from 7am yesterday to collect the garbage in an event held in conjunction with Earth Day. McDonald's were also represented by 60 volunteers from 3 states. Perak, Penand & Kedah!
All members were gathered for a briefing as early as 6.30am. We were divided in groups to comb the beach. Our McD managed to collect about 26Kg of rubbish. Can you imagine!? The rubbish were sorted out and analyze too.
According to data released by Universiti Sains Malaysia marine and coastal studies centre researchers later, 5.7 tonnes of garbage were collected from Gurney Drive (including the refrigerator and tyre found strewn on the rocks), 0.3 tonnes from Batu Ferringhi and 0.4 tonnes from Tanjung Bungah. More than 48,000 items were in the entire pile of garbage.
McD sponsered some 600 Chicken Burger for the volunteers too!
Anyway, well done to the Northern Dream Team for another successful effort in championing green initiatives :)
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