The country is organising the Malaysia Cleanup Day nationwide on Sept 28, involving more than 50,000 individuals and 156 local authorities.
As part of the event, the government also launched a campaign that will see retail chains nationwide stop providing single-use plastic bags to customers from Oct 1.
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As part of the event, the government also launched a campaign that will see retail chains nationwide stop providing single-use plastic bags to customers from Oct 1.
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00:00The country is organizing the Malaysia Cleanup Day nationwide, involving more than 50,000
00:12individuals and 156 local authorities.
00:16The event, which will start from 8am to 8pm on Saturday, will be launched at Central Market
00:22in Kuala Lumpur.
00:24The Housing and Local Government Ministry said at the pre-launch on Thursday that the
00:28event will involve all levels of society, including students, company's employees,
00:34fire and rescue department personnel, and staff from local authorities.
00:58We set a target of 3,000 metric tons.
01:01Third, the garbage collection.
01:03Usually, people do it in the morning.
01:05This time, this is the longest garbage collection, 12 hours.
01:09Every October, we have the National Waste Day.
01:12So now, in September, we have the Malaysia Cleanup Day.
01:17Because cleanliness is very important for us to raise the national flag and also to improve
01:25the quality of life and well-being of Malaysians.
01:29The event will promote environment conservation initiatives, such as the Say No to Single-Use
01:34Plastic Bags campaign.
01:36Earlier at the launch of the campaign, the ministry said 20 retail grocery chains nationwide
01:41have pledged to no longer provide single-use plastic bags to customers from October 1st.
01:47The ministry said the campaign will involve a total of 7,601 premises to help Malaysia
01:53achieve its goal of eliminating single-use plastics by 2030.
01:58Through the campaign, Malaysia aims to reduce as much as 200 million single-use plastics annually.