Global Issues and Malaysia Week

In Malaysia Week, we saw a few global issues, but it was not as bad as some other sites. As we were rafting back to the bus on Thursday, I noticed shampoo clumps in the river. Bunches of white bubbles and I realized it was the shampoo we had been using for showers in the river. That was the only big issue we saw, but we saw others, like the food waste we had dropped on the beach. We had tried to put all of our food waste in the compost bin. I thought it was strange how we had to throw our meat and bones in the river and forest. It was very nice at night because you could actually see the stars, they weren't blocked by the pollution of KL. I think we might have actually caused some pollution on the first day. We were adding to the fire when we found remains of balloons everywhere and we chucked them into the fire to see if they would burn or not. It was only afterwards that someone told us about how the balloons had been releasing toxic fumes into the environment while burning.