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Day: February 23, 2021

Groups around the world, including CAP, urge shipping lines to prevent export of plastic wastes

  "52 organizations from all over the world, including Basel Action Network (BAN), Greenpeace, GAIA, the Environmental Investigation Agency, and The Last Beach Cleanup, have written letters to the nine largest global shipping lines: Hapag-Lloyd (Germany), Maersk (Denmark), CMA CGM (France), MSC (Switzerland), Hamburg SUD (Germany), Hyundai Merchant Marine (Korea), Evergreen (Taiwan), COSCO...
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AMEND LAWS TO IMPOSE HARSH PENALTIES ON DIRTY FOOD MANUFACTURERS

Recently the media reported that four fucuk (thin dried tofu sheets) factories in Sungai Bakap and Sungai Jawi, Penang were issued compound notices for operating in unhygienic conditions. Penang Health Department’s Food Safety and Quality Division (BKMM) Environmental Health Officer, Encik Mohd Wazir Khalid said that the compound notices, worth RM8,500 were issued to the premises which were...
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GREENWASHING ALERT

Coca-Cola produces over 100 billion plastic bottles each year, many of which wash up on shores and litter streets around the world. Our global Brand Audit recently named Coca-Cola the world’s worst plastic polluter for the third year in a row. Now, the company has announced it will roll out 100% recycled plastic bottles for select brands in some U.S. states. Unfortunately, this is a false...
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