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gRRRRRL…… the weather is starting to be drier and it’s open season for open burning. Most of the time I read in the newspaper or watch tv about open burning and how the haze was cause by farmers in neighbouring country Indonesia which uses slash & burn method to clear their farmland. well…. not anymore. I’ve the first hand experience to see 3 neighbours doing it in broad daylight. One of them even have the gull to ask us to not pileup our dried leaves in the corner but burn it. According to her, my garden has lots of wildlife like snake, squirrels, musang etc. Her emphasis was on snakes. The so call snake that she mention is actually 4 legged lizard which only appears IF you have a healthy garden.
Now…. you must be wandering why I would have a pile of dried leaves at a corner ? Well, I’m clearing my backyard to make place for my veggies & herbs and am putting up shade. The pile at the corner will be used as compost. See if you recycle your organic waste and mixed it with dried leaves, grass, they’ll make compost for your garden. (will explain more in another posting)
Photo credit: lyanafnd.
Back to my story, her maid started burning their dried leaves and here we were trying to work on our garden. All the smoke started to blow over to our garden. When we told her not to do open burning, she defended by saying the other neighbour does it everyday. Wow… that does justified everyone burning rubbish huh. Now I know who the rascal who’s been burning everyday when the sun is up. All my clothes smell of smoke. We told her that open burning is a offend and can be fined or jailed. She was very quick to said that we have alot of snake in our garden and we have very untidy garden. True, the garden is very old, it belong to my late father-in-law who refuse to allow anyone to change anything in the garden. So it’s like a jungle, fully covered with canopy trees like a jungle feel. When he passed away, we started clearing a small area to grow herbs and also veggies. Still trying to clear it. Since our backyard is facing her backyard, she always bitching about it being untidy. So now I can BITCH about her open burning. hahahaha. As far as I am concern, I intend to trim the trees but I’ve no intention of cutting it down. It takes along timefor the rambutan tree to grow to the size and chopping it down may look good but then there will be less tree to store more co2 and generate oxygen. Hai…sigh, after the conversation, the indo maid quickly put out the fire, now I have a furious neighbour. That’s the reason why I kept quiet but sometimes if you don’t say anything you are the only one suffering. Afew hours later, another neighbour (international celeb family home) started to do their open burning. So… is this the case of ” if you can’t beat em’, join em’ ” NO! NO! NO! Next I found out that not only do most of my neighbours practises open burning openly but the army camp nearby does it frequently also. So…. there you have it. What can I do now.
I plan to look in the net and print out about law on open burning and also how to use the rubbish they are burning and turning them into compost. Not sure if they will even appreciate it but I feel education is the only way. Then again, the people who does the burning are always the Indo maids and not their owners. what do you think, is it a good idea to tell them that it is illegal to do open burning and there are better ways to reuse the dried leaves/rubbish.
Public can complain to the Department of Environment, website below :
but from some of the forum I’ve read, many are frustrated because when the enforcer do come, the culprit has already gone. Best thing is to take photo or video and send it to the mainstream media or put it on the net. hahahahaha
Read more about air pollution and how you can make a difference at http://thegivinghands.org/environment/5-ways-to-reduce-air-pollution
signing off
a very tired GREEN BITCH !@#$%^&*(
