The Carnival is back for the 7th Year. It is a festive season celebration in conjunction with the Chinese New Year 2010. More than 214 stalls selling variety of foods and goods operating daily from 6am until 1pm at Jalan SS2/62. These include 4 stalls operated by the people with disabilities.
SS2 CARES is a grouping of residents groups, traders, disabled people and agencies to promote community sustainable initiatives in SS2 neighbourhood. It started with the success of stakeholders participatory planning in upgrading the SS2 town park. At that time, town hall alike meetings were called at the park to brain storm and discuss on the upgrading of the park. It was then that, formal partnership was established to plan community development programmes for better utilising the park facilities.
The Carnival is an event to introduce the traders and public on environmental education and awareness. For the past 3 years, booth on recycling campaign was set up to better educate public on 3R concept. Various redemption schemes are on offered to attract participation. Yesterday's launching witnessed the importance of offering incentives to attract participation. Economic instrument rather than voluntary instrument is critical for 3R to be successful. While we have discovered a way to promote 3R, it is also sad to notice that Malaysian have not making 3R as their way of life, even after more than 15 years of the implementation of Recycling Campaign.
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