KOTA KINABALU: The City Hall plans to extend the no plastic Monday campaign, which is currently participated by 133 retail outlets in the city, to include Tuesday and Wednesday next year.
Mayor Datuk Iliyas Ibrahim, who disclosed this at the Core Goes Green community project here yesterday, said the City Hall will step up the public awareness campaigns on cleanliness, especially the anti-littering and no plastic bags.
This would hopefully change the mindset of the people on the importance of keeping the city clean and preserving the environment, he said.
“DBKK’s ultimate goal is to make Kota Kinabalu a litter free city with no rubbish and plastic bags lying around, especially in public places and beaches.
“DBKK hopes for the full support from the community, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) as well as shopping centres in controlling the usage of plastic bags in conjunction with the practice of 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle),” said Iliyas.
He added that DBKK was proud that a corporate body had gone down to the field to take up the noble initiative to complement the city’s effort in making Kota Kinabalu clean, beautiful and safe.
“The ‘gotong royong’ at Tanjung Aru First Beach by Core Fitness is in line with DBKK’s cleanliness agenda of getting the people, particularly city dwellers, to play their part in keeping Kota Kinabalu City free from rubbish,” said Iliyas.
His speech was delivered by the deputy director general (Operation) of DBKK, Joannes Solidau.
Joannes later added that people nowadays have the “amah” or maid syndrome where they leave, expecting their maid to clean up after them.
“Because of this syndrome, when they go out they expect DBKK to clean up after them also,” said Joannes hoping that the public would change their mindset and clean up their own rubbish.
Also present were chairman of Core Fitness Datuk Tan Cheng Kiat and the vice president of Food for the Hungry International Federation (FHI) Datuk Chin Kui Bee.