Maintaining a Clean Neighbourhood

By Eleana Ting Tze Qi

Maintaining a clean neighbourhood is the toughest task to be done among the residents
because achieving that requires the whole community to work together. Still, the residents seem to
be involving in this event involuntarily because they always expect others to initiate the job.

As the saying goes, action speaks louder than words. What are the actions to be taken by the
residents to keep their neighbourhood clean? As residents, we shall take our responsibility to ensure
the surrounding of our houses not causing any negative impact towards other neighbour from the
aspect of hygiene. For instance, we should keep our household garbage organised instead of littering
them everywhere as you like. Besides, growing a garden with all greenery would be a cherry on top if
we do so.

It is crucial that we keep our neighbourhood clean from time to time because nobody would
ever like to stay or even live in a filthy neighbourhood. Maintaining a fresh neighbourhood can
magically create positive and pleasant feeling inside the heart of residents. Moreover, a
neighbourhood with unpolluted air, water and soil can prevent the spreading of diseases within the
neighbourhood.

Unfortunately, environmental issues seemingly appear at every corner of my neighbourhood

as well due to the increasing human activities in the area. There are a lot of happenings around here
such as house renovation, open burning and nearby construction projects by government. This has
led to several serial environmental disaster such as the deterioration of air quality and sound
pollution.

In the future, we hope to raise the awareness among the residents to keep their
neighbourhood clean as there is no more time to wait for others to start realising how much damage
they have caused to the environment as a result of their irresponsibility.