A Smiling Visit to P.A.S.S

P.A.S.S. (Pertubuhan Amal Seri Sinar) is a non-profit organization that was formed in the year 2003 with the mission to educate the public on recycling for charity. Thus, this organisation becomes our target for coming GREEN TRIP!! 20th July 2009, 8 members from APR1 gathered at TAR College at 2pm and departed to P.A.S.S. at 3pm.

Before departing...

Why we go there? The main reason is to gain knowledge on recycling matters and also to request for a few materials our upcoming event. So, we planned to pay a visit to P.A.S.S to know more about recycling process and to look for some recycled stuff that can be use during event. Through this visit, we gained valuable knowledge from this huge and systematic recycle centre.

Arrived at the location after an hour of tiring journey…

The entrance for P.A.S.S. really looks like a chalet…Don’t you think so?

While waiting for Dato’ Eadon Ching (founder and president of P.A.S.S), the administration’s staff- Miss Agnes Lee gave us a tour around the centre and share with us about the effort P.A.S.S has made to help protecting the Earth from further destruction.

Miss Agnes Lee (from right) was showing the news clipping of all the activities and donation ceremony that has been done by P.A.S.S. To date, P.A.S.S. have donated approximately RM700,000 to charities to help the community in social welfare, education, medical, youth programs and NGO networking regardless of race and religion. Hats off to P.A.S.S!!

Before we visited the recycling centre, our impression is that the place would be very dirty and full of dust, but we were wrong, totally wrong! This recycling centre is very clean and systematic. Everyday, the recycling centre will send out 20 lorries to Klang Valley, Shah Alam and Subang to collect all the recycling stuff. After that, they will categorize and place it nicely according to the materials. Besides that, they use energy saving cooling system which helps to improve the comfort of crowded, polluted, hot and stuffy space area.

They also have energy saving exhaust system to flush out the hot and pollutted air to keep the air in center fresh!! Cool right?

The Water Curtain is build withing the recycling centre to filter the flow of air, reduce the temperature, refresh the air with aromatic fragrance and enhance good energy.

Miss Agnes Lee giving us a tour around the recycling centre…

Recycle bins are also prepared to let the public to put in their recycle items.

These are all the electronic devices such as televisions, DVD players and monitors in which will be sold to a particular electronic company in which they have contract with.

All of these clothes will be sent to third world countries to help those who are in-need.

Two hours later, we are able to have a short interaction session with Dato’ Eadon Ching, who just came back from his meeting. From the conversation, we found out that the reason he established this centre in the year 2003 is due to the encouragement from his friends. However, his passion and expertise in this field had also contributed to his decision in establishing P.A.S.S.

In beginning, he only has RM30, 000.00 to set up for everything, but now, he is able to do charity and donated at least RM700 000 to the charity homes. Why? “Because there is no problem in everything” quote Dato’ Eadon Ching.

He hopes that public who are interested in recycling will call them for help as their hotline is accessible and they will try to assist them with what they can.

Before we end our conversation, Dato’ Eadon Ching said that he planned to enlarge his business in the future by going into more and more organizations, universities and colleges who wish to go Green. But hey everyone, you can recycle too!! There are recycle bin near your house (as shown in above picture) and you can even call the recycling centre to collect all the recycle stuff from you house! Thus, there is no excuse to say no to recycle!!

Few pictures with Dato’ Eadon Ching

“Each and every single thing has their own life, so we should respect nature, feel the instinct there, just like people respect us.” – Dato’ Eadon Ching