So, it should come as no surprise that a Japanese man would help us clean up our own streeets (althought it is something that we Malaysians should do, not a guest in our country).
The shocking thing, however, is the amount of trash he picked up.
Mountain of cingarette butts
The Japanese man, known only as Nana, took to his Twitter page to share share a picture of the amount of cigarette butts he managed to pick up during a clean-up run earlier this year.According to Nana, he picked up more than 4,500 cigarette butts at the Ayer@8 area in Putrajaya in less than one and a half hours.
Nana wrote in Japanese: “So many cigarette butts littered everywhere”, accompanied by a crying emoji.
Nana, who's currently residing in Cyberjaya, then revealed in another tweet (in Bahasa Malaysia, nonetheless) that he picked up the trash during a gotong-royong with environmentalist group Trash Hero Putrajaya a few months ago.タバコの吸い殻のポイ捨てが多い?
— Nana@Cyberjaya ????✌️ (@NanaCyber2) May 26, 2020
今年の初めPutrajayaのAyer 8でごみ拾いした時の写真です。1時間半で4500本もの吸い殻を拾いました。#Putrajaya pic.twitter.com/X8vngH7vKP
He also said that he likes to volunteer for various charity initiatives.Awal tahun ini, saya dan sukarelarawan Trash Hero Putrjaya membuat pembersihan di Ayer 8, Putrajaya. Kami berjaya mengutip 4500 batang rokok di dalam 1 jam setengah.
— Nana@Cyberjaya ????✌️ (@NanaCyber2) May 27, 2020
In fact, he shared another picture showing a heap of plastic bottles he and his fellow friends collected near Gem In Mall at Cyberjaya before the Movement Control Order (MCO) started in March:
MCO前の2/29。GEM-IN-MALLの裏でごみ拾いをやった時の1枚。
— Nana@Cyberjaya ????✌️ (@NanaCyber2) May 24, 2020
ペットボトル、タバコのポイ捨て多かった。2時間で202kgのゴミを拾いましたよ pic.twitter.com/yc4ks36uU5
To be honest, we feel a bit malu because a Japanese man is helping us clean up the mess we made in our very own country.