Ipoh City Council sends three lorries to dispose of senior’s garbage

[superadmin]

IPOH – It is a praiseworthy attitude, but her obsession with the environment grew into a hoarding disorder for this elderly woman, who ignored her horrified neighbours and turned her home into a “warehouse” for the collection of garbage, which has spun out of control in the past three years.

The Ipoh City Council (MBI) had to send three eight-tonne lorries to dispose of the mountain of rubbish estimated to weigh three tonnes in a concerted operation at her house in Jalan Merpati, Taman Ipoh, this morning.

According to MBI, this is the third time the local council has had to carry out a clean-up operation at the same house after the owner failed to cease her hoarding activity despite being advised many times over.

In fact, the owner, who lives in the house with her husband, was once referred to the Social Welfare Department for counselling, but the elderly person kept repeating the clutter of recyclables.

- More -