HUNDREDS of bottles containing dark liquid, believed to be soy sauce, were dumped along the Sungai Kinta riverbank at Tronoh Mines in Kampar.

A check by MetroPerak saw bottles were strewn around three spots along a 6km unpaved road near the riverbank.

There were between 30 and 50 bottles at each spot, with some emptied while most of them were unopened.

Gym owner R. Ganesan, 57, an avid cyclist, was dismayed when he saw the bottles.

“I am not sure who are the culprits but this is wrong.

“My friends and I stumbled upon the site in mid-September. We cycle through this area often and these bottles were not there before.

“I believe the content of the bottles have spoilt or expired, which led to the dumping,” he said.

Ganesan also pointed out that the perpetrators knew what they were doing was wrong as the labels were removed from the bottles.

“It is easy to just discard the bottles here, away from watchful eyes.

“They must have thought that no one would make any complaints.

“Luckily, the content is not toxic but just imagine if someone else threw hazardous materials here,” he said.

Ganesan, however, has yet to inform the Kampar District Council about the matter.

“I used to bring up a lot of issues to the district council and was often met with disapproving eyes.

“I got fed up and stopped doing so,” he said, adding that he was unaware of any soy sauce factories near the area.

A check with a local resident in Kampar found that there was one soy sauce factory in the constituency.

However, the shape of the discarded bottles did not match the ones produced by this factory.

When contacted, district councillor Cheong Pei Chin said she would check the area with council officers and take the necessary action.