PENCINTA ALAM NEWSLETTER OF THE MALAYSIAN NATURE SOCIETY

www.mns.my November 2018

PHOTO REPORT Click here to THE PLASTIC WASTE RECYCLING read the Letter to Editor INDUSTRY IN Following the publication of Green Living’s Letter to the Editor on the plastic waste recycling industry Locals have been complaining of serious health (in Malaysiakini on 27 Sept and in The Star on 28 problems since the industry’s growth but their Sept), MNS’s Green Living SIG was invited by the complaints have fallen on largely deaf ears. Kuala Langat Environmental Action Association to join reporters from the foreign media on a site visit There was a constant acrid smell of burning to the illegal plastic recycling plants in , electronics in the air and the place looked like a and . The local (mostly illegal) plastic waste industry burgeoned following China’s ban on scene from a dystopian movie. the importing of plastic waste from the EU and USA. RELATED STORIES

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Thailand to ban foreign plastic waste from 2021 1 Huge rise in US plastic waste shipments Toxic Waste Materials to poor countries following China ban Electronic waste is categorised as scheduled U.S. Recyclers in 'Mounting Crisis' After waste but here they were just crushed and left China's Plastic Waste Ban sitting in sacks. Within minutes of being in this warehouse, our Britain’s relationship with China on eyes and throat began to itch. Yet migrant workers plastic waste were processing toxic waste materials with no protective equipment. Some were just sweeping Without A Simple Fix For Plastic Waste, up crushed e-waste with a broom and dustpan. Bold Leadership Is Needed

2 4 3 2 Plastic waste from the USA being processed in Electronic waste from an illegal recycling plant Plastic waste from Turkey Japan being processed in in Jenjarom. ready for processing in an an illegal recycling plant in illegal recycling plant in Jenjarom. Jenjarom.

3 5 6 Hidden This plastics recycling plant is named Westpak Village headman Mr Tan told us how the and is hidden in an oil palm plantation. Bales of quantity of plastic waste used to be even plastic waste is processed in the open air. greater until the Minister of Housing and Burning of plastic waste takes place at night. Local Government, YB Zuraida The unrecyclable and unwanted waste is just Kamaruddin, visited in August and ordered dumped in the plantation area with no the plant to close down operations. measures to control leachate or water/air/soil But there is no way of getting rid of the pollution. unrecyclable and toxic waste left behind. 4 8 The unwanted and unrecyclable waste 7 is just left lying in piles on the road, breeding mosquitoes and disease Abandoned vectors. Wind and rain carry the plastic This is an abandoned light industrial area, waste scraps into drains and rivers. meant for auto workshops and shops. Plastic waste burning takes place at Recently illegal plastic recycling companies, night. The air constantly smells of some locally-owned and some China-owned, burning electronics. The local residents set up quietly in the area. The factory workers have had to deal with an increase in (mostly migrant labourers) work without respiratory illnesses, especially among protective equipment, sorting, crushing and the elderly and very young. burning plastic waste. 5 10

9 Imagine entire streets, roads and open spaces just piled high with bales of Piled High plastic and electronic waste like this. Plastic and electronic waste, including Scraps of plastic waste clogged drains Scheduled Waste such as ABS, being and streams. Prawns and fish have processed openly in very basic factories died. Not many birds are seen. The that shouldn’t really be more than just smell of burning electronics filled the air warehouses constantly.

6 12 11 Danger to Community Health Unrecyclable and unwanted plastic waste was Migrant labourers sorted, crushed and just piled up by the roadside and left burning burned plastic waste in the open air day and night. This looked like a war zone or a without any protective equipment (apart scene from a dystopian movie. from straw hats, as seen in this picture).

7 3. We must live a lifestyle that is consistent WASTE RECYCLING with our values, and therefore consume and What you can do: dispose of fewer resources. We have seen that recycling is not the solution, at least, not 1. This is not just a “Selangor issue”. at the moment. This is a national and, indeed, global issue. Support activists and local 4. Activists on the ground have informed us that communities in other states and areas. many of these factory operators are Speak up for them. Lobby your MPs relocating to less populated areas such as and ministers. If you have writing or industrial areas in Rawang, and photography skills, offer to assist groups . So wherever in Malaysia you are, and communities which may not have the please be very vigilant. resources or experience in activism. If you notice any suspicious factories set up, plastic and electronic waste being 2. If you have friends in the media, transported in your neighbourhood or especially the international media, let hometown, or the smell of burning plastic them know what is going on and invite waste at night, report it to the Department of them to visit the illegal plastic recycling Environment, local authorities and relevant sites in Jenjarom, Banting and Klang for government ministries. Mobilise other local themselves. residents for safety and find out as much as you can. Take photos and videos for evidence.

8 WASTE RECYCLING What you can do:

5. The illegal recycling industry and its proponents rely on the public staying ignorant and happy in the belief that all forms of recycling are good, and that governments are doing enough by banning or taxing single- use plastics. Keep yourself informed and help to educate and inform others. Find out what types of plastic can be safely recycled, what happens to the This book is a celebration of amazing visuals by Bjorn Olesen. unrecyclable waste, who owns the The amazing detailed images will keep you captivated as it land on which plastic waste recycling introduces you to the majestic world of Borneo rainforest and its wildlife. factories are set up, and the difference Author and Illustrator: Fanny Lai & Bjorn Olesen between plastic waste levies and Published by: Bjorn Olesen Wildlife Photography, Singapore bans. Special Price: RM99

To buy, visit our online store: https://shopmns.easy.co/products/mb00086-a-visual-celebration- of-borneo-s-wildlife 9 GREEN LIVING ADVOCACY Letter to the Editor Forum reports that we use times as much plastics as we did 50 years ago. Illegal Plastic Recycling Factories Businesses create more and more single-use plastics to meet Highlight Need For Real Solutions consumers’ expectations for convenience, and most of these All our efforts to reduce plastic plastics can never be recycled. New Zealand news portal RadioNZ’s waste and microplastic pollution recent exposé of the illegal plastic would translate into very low Plastic recycling is a labour-intensive recycling industry in Jenjarom and other environmental and health returns if process. Plastic waste has to be plantation hinterlands in Malaysia to plastic recyclers – mostly unlicensed broken down, cleaned, separated by deal with plastic waste imported from and unregulated – are allowed to grade and made into pellets. This New Zealand and the UK highlights the carry out operations and continue means that manufacturing plastic fact that most of the world, including processing plastic waste that had from scratch is always more developed nations with ostensibly clear entered Malaysia prior to the economically rewarding than waste management and recycling Minister’s Sept 1 announcement of a recycling plastics, even with subsidies legislation, are ill-equipped to deal with restriction on plastic waste imports. and recycling-related legislation in plastic waste. The plastics manufacturing industry tries place. to convince the public that littering, The irony of this fact (i.e. the import and ignorance about recycling and lack of Developed nations often believe that processing of plastic waste in Malaysia) recycling facilities – and not the legislating and incentivizing recycling is not lost on environmentally-aware production of plastics per se – are the and collecting plastics for recycling is Malaysians who applauded Energy, problem. the same thing as ensuring that Science, Technology, Environment and plastics are being properly recycled. Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin’s But the real problem is that we are using What the general public often is not latest announcement on Sept 14 that a lot more plastics and generating a lot aware of is that developed nations Malaysia would be phasing out and more waste as the world is becoming take the easy option of exporting eventually banning single-use plastics. more industrialised. The World Economic plastic waste to developing nations ---

10 the very same developing nations However, burning plastics creates harmful The solution to the problem of plastic waste whose rivers are identified as the dioxins, and if incinerators are inefficient, lies not in setting up yet more licensed and source of 90% of marine plastics, the these dioxins leak into the environment. legal plastic recycling plants in Malaysia and very same developing nations lacking Burning plastic for energy generation is other developing nations, as there will sufficient infrastructure to manage also very carbon-intensive and contribute always be unrecyclable and contaminated their own plastic waste. to increased carbon emissions. Burying plastic waste and toxic byproducts to deal plastic waste in landfills may appear to be with. The solution does not lie in individual It could take years for Britain, USA safer but this is a really inefficient use of countries banning the import of plastic and European nations to increase land, and studies have found that the waste in order to protect their own their domestic recycling capacities. degradation of plastic waste in oceans and population from reduced air quality and Even so, existing recycling technology landfills actually produce methane and other environmental hazards, as there will isn’t good enough, largely because of ethylene, both potent greenhouse gases. be other developing nations and limitations in how plastics can be impoverished societies desperate enough to sorted by chemical composition and The solution to the problem of plastic accept imports of plastic waste. cleaned of additives. Most plastics waste doesn’t lie in recycling more, or that are recycled are shredded and replacing plastics with other types of The solution lies in creating a circular reprocessed into lower-value plastics, disposable packaging. Biodegradable economy that does not rely on shipping such as polyester carpet fibre. Only packaging is linked to other environmental materials across oceans to be reused, but 2% are recycled into products of the problems, which include increased carbon keeps resources in use for as long as same quality. and methane emissions in landfills, possible in the economic cycle. The solution deforestation, higher water and land use, to the problems of plastic waste lie in In the meantime, more and more and higher fuel use due to the fact that reducing dependency on all single-use and plastic products will continue to be paper and plant fibre products weigh disposable items, creating more closed loop produced, used and discarded, and more than plastics. and low-waste systems, creating and many countries will resort to burning sustaining a bigger market for reusables, plastics for energy recovery or landfilling plastic waste.

11 and making zero waste stores and products available, accessible and affordable to all, not just to higher income, urban, educated and expatriate communities.

The Malaysian Government is taking a step in the right direction by raising awareness, phasing out single-use plastics, enforcing laws against open burning, banning the import of plastic waste and regulating the plastics recycling industry. What we need now is for the Malaysian public to stop treating environmental issues as political or economic issues, and to understand that environmental and human health are interconnected. What we need now is to stop seeing the problem of plastic waste management as the fault of high-consuming, affluent developed nations, or the fault of developing nations with high corruption levels and flawed waste management systems – and to start seeing it as a shared responsibility.

What we need now is to stop seeing the problem of plastic waste management as the fault of high- consuming, affluent developed nations, or the fault of developing nations with high corruption levels and flawed waste management systems – and instead to start seeing it as a shared responsibility.

WONG EE LYNN Green Living Coordinator 12 River Open Classroom at Urban Community Forest allows city folk to get closer to urban rivers

The Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) Malaysia has established an outdoor environmental learning center focusing on river conservation called the River Open Classroom for city folk to learn about importance of local waterways and empower them to protect the waterways from pollution. more next page…

13 The open classroom is at Sungai Bras-Bras care society, acquire strong environmental located in the vicinity of Urban Community values and move towards sustainable Forest in the Malaysia Nature Society (MNS) direction. headquarters, which is part of the 74.4ha Federal Hill, the last remaining green lung DID Malaysia through the River of Life in the city center. project has been supporting the restoration of 1km of Sungai Bras-Bras back to its The establishment of the open classroom is natural living river setting. The Global part of wider efforts to raise public Environment Centre (GEC) in partnership awareness on the Klang River under the with MNS will be facilitating the open River of Life Project and to celebrate World classroom activities. Among the activities Habitat Day 2018. conducted at the open classroom are river water quality and biological monitoring, Tuan Haji Khairi Selamat, Director of River zero waste management programme as well Basin Management Division, DID Malaysia as community empowerment trainings. who was present to launched the River Open Classroom said the area is designed to Those interested organise an environment be an engaging, interactive and educational activities at the open classroom can contact classroom for people of ages. He hoped the Global Environment Centre at 037957 2007 open classroom will create learning or e-mail at [email protected] experience to help public to become river

14 by Lian Yi Wen Visit to a Sustainable Fish Farm Photo by Tan Whei Li

The sound of rain drowned the car Measures are made to ensure the environment is not radio on the way to . As we polluted by farm waste. Treatment systems for waste needed to take a speedboat to Aqua Ceria Fish Farm, I was worried that the speedboat water need to comply with strict requirements. would overturn on the way to the fish farm. Discharge of sludge is also not allowed. Fortunately, the weather calmed down and we made it safely to the fish farm. This trip was made possible by WWF- Malaysia. The Aqua Ceria Fish Farm is one of the fish farms that participates in WWF- Malaysia’s Aquaculture Improvement Projects (AIP). It is located off Pulau Ketam, Selangor. To get there, we need to take a speedboat from Port Klang. We were first given an introduction of AIP by the representatives from WWF- Top: Chor Wei Kang holding the Malaysia, Victor Charlie Andin, Senior Asian Seabass. Seafood Improvement Officer, and Chor Wei Tea Soon Keong Kang, Aquaculture Improvement Officer. looking on. They explained that the further the farm from the land, the better it is as the pollution from the land will not contaminate the fishes.

15 Visit to a Sustainable Fish Farm

The fish farm is at the mouth of the river surrounded by mangrove trees. This area is rich in biodiversity and a perfect spot for a fish farm. Unlike other farms, Aqua Ceria Fish Farm tries to improve their practices to be After the tour, the organiser of more environmentally friendly while this trip took us to Pulau Ketam for a providing consumers with better quality Top: Tea Soon Keong describing the operation of their wonderful seafood lunch. Since Mr. seafood. Not many fish farms participate in fish farm Tea is from Pulau Ketam, he gave us Right: Victor Charlie Andin explaining the Aquaculture this project as they are required to test the Improvement Projects (AIP) a short tour around his water quality at regular intervals and keep it neighbourhood. It was a peaceful within set limits, which takes more time and Fishing nets are also a very and quite neighbourhood. The work. The measurement is to ensure the important part of the farm. The nets are residents there have a very eco- environment is not polluted by farm waste. bought from Japan as they are of higher friendly lifestyle. Cycling and walking Treatment systems for waste water need to quality, lighter and last longer. Low quality is their way of travelling. There are comply with strict requirements. Discharge nets need to be changed regularly no other vehicles, the closest to a car of sludge is also not allowed. because barnacles often grow on them. I saw was an electric scooter. The fishes on this farm feed on pellet The friendly owner of the farm, It was a tiring day for feed instead of smaller fishes. This is better Mr Tea Soon Keong, gave us a tour around everyone, but we were all happy as for both the fishes and the environment. If the fish farm. Fishes like Grouper, Red we learned a lot of things. My family smaller fish is given as feed, the remains will Snapper and Sea Bass are reared then also decided to support this fish farm sink to the sea bed and pollute the water. shipped off to hotels and airlines all over by buying seafood from them. It is a However, the workers on Aqua Ceria Fish Malaysia. Fishes must be about 4 better choice and more reassuring as Farm feed the fishes at appointed times of kilograms before they are allowed to be we know where and how the fishes the day to prevent wastage of pellets. The sold. Workers also hand-pick each fish were raised and cared for. I hope pellet feed is made from the by-product of then scale and gut them before selling. more local fish farms can use a more scallops from Japan. It is mixed with some One fish was descaled and gutted in front environmentally friendly practice to soybean to provide more nutrition. of us and later served as our lunch. supply us with better seafood. 16 Visit to a Sustainable Fish Farm So what can we do to ensure we don’t run out of fish stock? Giving up seafood, or making a responsible choice when purchasing or ordering seafood. Some people choose the former, while most of us prefer the latter. Here is a guideline from www.saveourseafood.my.

Ways to ensure the future generations get to enjoy seafood for many more years to come.

You can download a pocket size seafood guide from here: http://www.wwf.org.my/media_and_information/publications_main/sustainable_seafood_guide/ 17 ECO KIDS

By Ng Zhang En The Best School Holiday 1 Pick up some trash in your community Activities An easy and simple thing to do! Picking up some trash decreases the chance of it getting into the ocean To Do Ever! and eaten by animals such as Sea Turtles.

18 3 Set up your own 2 lemonade stand and donate the profits to charity The process of making the lemonade (you The earth is facing global can sell anything too, not just lemonade) and warming. The more plants we selling it is fun! One of the places you can plant the better the chance of sell them is your neighbourhood playground. global warming ends, be it a simple potted plant or a big tree,

Free Tree Society constantly have free tree giveaways! To find out more follow their Facebook page at https://m.facebook.com/Free Example of a simple and easy tray idea TreeSociety/ to carry around and sell. Get your hands on the soil and try gardening try and soil the on hands your Get 19 5 Try the Zero Waste 7-day Jar Challenge! This challenge is simple. All you need to do is to fit one week’s worth of trash in a 500ml glass jar! Check out how a girl convinced her 71 year old grandmother to do the 4 Zero Waste 7 Day Jar Challenge: Make your own https://www.facebook.com/cnainsider/videos/ 1807284115960924/ potpourri from local plants and flowers Gather and cut any plants, flowers or fruit peels that produce fragrant smells into small pieces and leave it out in the sun to dry. After it is completely wrinkled and dried, gather it in a bowl and enjoy the fragrance of your potpourri. You can also wrap your potpourri in a cloth and leave it in shoes, bags or cupboards to freshen to smell. Instagram posts on people trying the Zero Waste Jar Challenge. 20 6 Volunteer at an 8 Last but not least… animal shelter Sign up for one of the A list of animal shelters activities listed on this you can volunteer are: newsletter! • LASS • MIAR Amazing animal encounters, nature • SPCA finds and loads more! You’ll have • PAWS no regrets when you sign up!

7 Go meatless for a week Going meatless not only help save the planet in many ways but also prevent you from getting heart disease. If one week is too much for you, try going meatless for a day. 21 Article & photos by Khor Hui Min

I had never travelled to Sarawak. It was one of the items on my bucket list. So when the Selangor Branch Photogroup announced a trip to Kuching and Bako National Park a few months ago, I signed up. The wait seemed to go on forever, till it was time to board my flight on 8 September 2018. When I passed through the security checkpoint, where we put all our hand carry luggage through the scanner, the officer on duty commented that there were many photographers After we touched down in Kuching at noon, flying today. When I joined my group at the we made our way to Bako National Park via van boarding gate, I could see why. They had some and boat ride. The park HQ was located on a serious professional photography equipment in quiet island, and we were greeted on arrival by a big backpacks. I told them the joke and they large bearded pig who was daintily foraging for laughed. ☺ food on the beach. more next page…

22 Bako National Park was gazetted in 1957 formations and the sea stacks, which are the and is Sarawak’s oldest and smallest national hallmarks of Bako. While the others climbed up park. It contains every kind of vegetation found in the karst hill to see the majestic sea view, I Borneo and is home to abundant wildlife as well. chased after mudskippers in the shallow water to After checking in, some started snapping photos take their portraits. at the mangrove boardwalk, while others went After returning to park HQ, it was time to hiking, whereas a few more went to the beach to check out and travel to Bau, where we stayed at a take photos of that bearded pig. Long-tailed Bidayuh homestay. It was the first time I sampled macaques were foraging for food under the traditional Bidayuh cuisine cooked in bamboo boardwalk, mudskippers and hermit crabs were over an open wood fire. We also practised taking moving around, and the tide was coming in, photos of the Milky Way at night in the dark making for interesting photography subjects. compound of the homestay. I went for a walk on the hiking trail, and was In Bau, we also visited the enchanting Fairy fortunate to come across four hermit crabs Cave, where the wind is always blowing softly and climbing up a vine, which made for a lovely lush vegetation flourish in the cavern. It is not photo. Later in the evening, I chanced upon the hard to imagine tiny magical fairies living here. large bearded pig foraging behind our rooms, and We also visited Semenggoh Wildlife Centre when managed to snap some close-up shots of it. The it was meal time for the orangutans. We ended next day, a proboscis monkey came to sit in a tree the evening with a visit to Siniawan Night Market, in front of our rooms too. which happens every weekend. I bought local We went for a boat ride after breakfast to coffee beans at a shop, at RM10 for 500g! see the interesting and colourful geological more next page…

23 In the final leg of our journey, we checked into the lovely Riverside Majestic Hotel in front of the riverfront in Kuching on 11 Sept. It was free and easy time till we boarded our flights back to KL the next day. I was fortunate to follow Lynne Woon around, as she seemed to be very familiar with Kuching. We covered Kuching on foot. All in all, it was an enjoyable makan non- stop (MNS) photography trip, just like all the Photogroup trips I ever joined. Thanks to the organisers for going a great job!

24 November 2018 All events times and venues are correct at time of printing. For latest updates, contact the Special Interest Group or check the MNS website regularly. Booking priority will be given to the organizing branch‘s members unless stated otherwise Calendar of Activities FROM BROWNFIELD TO GOLDFIELD: Even a derelict and degraded industrial REINVENTION OF SUSTAINABLE landscape that able to contribute to RECLAMATION APPROACHES FOR THE economic prosperity, revitalizing a brownfield POST INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE that creates a sense of community and social 50 YEARS OF BIRDING interaction; conserving the spectacular site’s Date : 3 November 2018 historic and cultural meaning. Date : 3 November 2018 Time : 11 am - 1pm Time : 9.30am Venue : MNS HQ, Auditorium About the Speaker Venue : MNS HQ, Auditorium Although Bryan Tang’s tertiary background "I have just touched my 50th year as a was in interior architecture, his strong Redevelopment of dilapidated post-industrial personal interest in horticulture and birdwatcher. It all began in April areas has received a huge attention lately and landscape design has led him to further his 1968." Allen J. it offers many environmental challenges postgraduate studies in Landscape especially air and soil pollution, social and Architecture. He strongly believes that a good Come hear the story of Mr. Allen J's culture detachment and isolation, poor landscape design not only promotes healthy journey as a birder, how it all began, the stormwater management and bunch of lifestyle for the people but also a solution for difficulties faced without mentors and field abandoned structure to be dealt with. the environmental issues like climate change, guides, and how one had to work hard to pollution, environmental degradation and ascertain the identity of one bird from This talk investigates the creative and health, nature disaster mitigation and further another. Light lunch will be provided. innovative design strategies that potentially more. During his student and practice time, resolve the above problems. Case studies for he has won numerous awards both locally More importantly come and share this both local and international will be discussed and internationally. In 2012, he has awarded and evaluated, each one related with different passion for birds with other like minded the second runner up in the Asia Pacific strategy. The presentation of well-known Biennial Design Awards, following by 2014 he birds of a feather. projects will reinforce and emphasise the has won the Landscape Architecture Australia importance of those kind of project in an student Prize, Hassell Travelling scholarship industrialized world. ‘The metapmorphosis of award and also GHD Woodhead Landscape Point Henry, Jillong in Melbourne, my final Architecture award. As a landscape architect, project for the master course will be presented he always demands himself to take one step and to discuss how the design strategies brings further and aim to make the world a better a tremendous positive impact to the site and place for human and nature, too. eventually become a goldfield.

25 November 2018 All events times and venues are correct at time of printing. For latest updates, contact the Special Interest Group or check the MNS website regularly. Booking priority will be given to the organizing branch‘s members unless stated otherwise Calendar of Activities Suggested Itinerary In your email, please include the Time : 9.00am meet-up following: Meeting point : Petronas Petrol AN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIC FARM VISIT • Name as in IC Station/Starbucks on E2 North-South Date : 24 November 2018 • IC no. Highway southbound (BEFORE the Time : 9am meet up UPM/Serdang exit) • Membership no. Venue : GK Organic Farm • Membership Expiry date 10.00am Arrival at GK Organic Farm • Your phone no. This trip is for MNS members only. 10.10am Briefing on GK History & • Emergency contact Non-members may join by adding additional Concept (including Vegetable • Name of emergency contact membership fee of RM70 for one year’s order) • Relationship membership. 10.30am Guided Farm Tour • Phone no. (barefooted) MNS Nature Guides is organizing a visit to GK 11.20am Organic Cold Drink If your family is joining you, please Organic Farm, located near Bangi (on the Bangi- Enzyme making demo and include the names (as in IC ) of your tasting Road), 40km south of Kuala Lumpur. GK spouse, children, etc. For Talk on Organic and Organic Farm is founded in 1994, and has been children, please state their ages environment growing organic vegetables and fruits using 12.15pm Organic Buffet Lunch (children below 3 yrs old free of charge). homemade compost and fertilizers. 1.30pm Bye bye Full Payment to be made by the same We will go on a guided farm tour on barefoot Participation fees : date 9th November, by bank transfer to: (earth grounding is good for us) We will learn Adult : RM80/pax about organic farming and the environment as Children : RM50/child (below 12years old) Malaysian Nature Society Selangor well as watch a demo on enzyme making and FREE for children below 3 years old Branch Nature Guides tasting. We will also feast on a scrumptious and Maybank Acc. No. : 514 150 441 764 wholesome organic vegetarian buffet lunch! Please confirm your participation by Reference : NG18 9th November 2018 by email to Bring your shopping bags and cash to buy a [email protected] Upon payment please email your bank variety of fresh newly harvested organic (attention Mary Chan and Kayal, your transfer receipt to: vegetables on site. organisers) [email protected]

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