Published on: Sunday, July 25, 2021 By: Kan Yaw Chong Text Size: Preparing waste collected to get transported to mainland. IT REMINDED me a shell-shock sight of bales of compressed plastic bottles in 2019! My first reaction was: “Waa, that looks familiar upon receipt last Monday of a press release entitled: ‘Reef Check Malaysia sends another 1,500kg of trash off Mantanani; calls for more government help’.” This mountain of trash that had thrashed Mantanani is nothing new to me anymore. On August 2019, I followed Swiss-based Race for Water crew to the island in in a maiden trip. That was the shock cited earlier – just bales and bales of crushed plastic bottles packed under a village house near Reef Check’s Recycling Centre.