Rubbish all over highlands during holidays

Rubbish all over highlands during holidays
Wednesday October 8, 2008

OVER the recent Hari Raya festive season, Cameron Highlands, which is among the favourite holiday destinations, was swarmed with tourists.

We welcome tourists as directly or indirectly, the majority of the people here are involved in the tourist business.

Tourists bring in the money but at the same time they bring us a lot of headache too. One of their very bad habits is throwing rubbish everywhere.

You can see rubbish by the road side, gardens and staircases. Some even leave their bags of rubbish along the corridors of apartments. You can even see them throw rubbish out of their car windows while driving around.

The other irritating thing is creating havoc at the apartments such as making loud noises till very late into the night and having a BBQ along the corridors and having the smoke enter into neighbouring units.

I would like to appeal to all visitors to please help keep Cameron Highlands clean by not throwing rubbish around.

For those who stay in private holiday apartments, please have some consideration for us locals. We need a good night’s rest as we need to work the next day. And please use the allocated garbage area; all you need to do is just walk a few steps to get there.

Apartment owners must share the responsibility. They need to advise their guests to be co-operative.

At the end of the day, we Malaysians must cultivate the good habit of keeping our country clean and be proud of it.

HIGHLANDER,

Cameron Highlands.