Swordie Bloggie

If you want to save the environment and some bucks, it’s time to stop hiring the grass cutter. We usually call the grass cutter to trim the grass around our house for RM60 every month.

Hiring the grass cutter can be eliminated if we cut our own grass… but laziness rule I guess. At the same time when they cut the grass, it’s very noisy… the grass cutter machine is very loud and it uses petrol… not good for the environment.

So the best thing is to get a mechanical lawn mowers… or better known as reel lawn mowers. It doesn’t require any sparks… no petrol… just your pure energy. Reel mower is widely used in US but not much in other part of the world, especially here.

Finding reel lawn mowers here is not easy… although I did saw once in one of the hardware store in Karamunsing sometime ago… seems everyone prefer to call the grass cutter. I guess if I start importing and promote this reel mover over here, I might get lots of orders… emm… 😛

Firemen are the most busy people nowadays… fire are everywhere… especially bush fire…

The fire station near my office at Sembulan is very busy… every day I can hear the fire engine’s siren almost every hour.

The weather is already very hot coz there was no rain for the past 1 month or so… then there are thick haze… sometimes the visibility is just 10km away… this is very bad… bad for our health.

So people, please stop doing open burning… try your best to refrain from burning your garbage, old junks, grass, bush… anything.

Try to recycle where possible… sell your old junks, old news papers, papers… anything… even your metal junks… plastic junks… don’t burn them… I’m sure your junks can be sold to 2nd hand shops… and they can sell it as second hand items or they can refurbished them before selling them again… you will be surprised what they sells in 2nd hand shops… you can even find refurbished fitness equipment in there 😀

We have a few bundles of old news papers at home… I brought my two nephews to sell the old papers at Luyang… 39kg… RM3.90 not much but good enough to save the environment 😀

Just look at this bush fire from the clearing near the Tambalang Race Course in Tuaran two weeks ago, 28 February 2010… disaster… not just to human but to other living things… poor birds…

Everyday, we are spoilt with all kind of plastic containers. Why I said that is because I’m sure you’ve experienced where plastic containers especially the drinking or mineral water bottles over flowing the garbage container at almost every corner of the town.

Yesterday I had another experience of this when I tried to throw away my 500ml drinking water bottle at the car wash centre. When I open the garbage container, it’s full with drinking water bottles! This is what we call Scrap High Density Polyethylene or Scrap HDPE.

When I think about it, imagine what happen if these bottles are simply thrown away or burned. The amount of pollution it caused will be major. Scrap HDPE is not biodegradable, meaning if you buried them, it will still be there after 100 years maybe. And if you burn them, you know how much black smoke plastics produced when they are burned.

So, please save the world… try to take home your drinking bottles and use it for other purposes or recycle them at the recycling centre.