July 11, 2023 – Consumers Association Penang

Here’s a better way to dispose of used cooking oil

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Don’t pour used cooking oil down the drain. Those oils can damage your home’s pipes and build up in municipal sewers. Oil and fats act as a glue, holding assorted sewer detritus together to create fatbergs, causing backups that require costly manual removal. Commercially marketed "oil solidifiers" – or a household substance called stearic acid – can transform the oil into a congealed...

New Zealand bans plastic bags for fresh produce in supermarkets

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Thin plastic bags are now banned in New Zealand supermarkets. This new ruling makes New Zealand the world's first country to expand its ban on plastic bags in supermarkets to thin bags, which are typically used to hold fruits or vegetables. The new move is expected to prevent the usage of 150 million plastic bags per year. Read more:

1-Hour Mood booster

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Feeling down? Try this routine to lift your spirits! Source: Productivity Hackers

BE SMART, EAT HEALTHY

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Rise of the Robots: UN Tries to Tackle ‘Mind-blowing’ Growth of AI

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By Robin Millard GENEVA: The mind-blowing growth of artificial intelligence poses many questions that have no answers yet, the United Nations admitted on July 6 at its AI summit, attended by some exceptionally life-like humanoid robots. The UN is aware that AI technology is racing ahead of the capacity to set its boundaries and directions, and so it brought together some of the best minds on...

Consumers Association Penang

Day: July 11, 2023

Day: July 11, 2023

Here’s a better way to dispose of used cooking oil

New Zealand bans plastic bags for fresh produce in supermarkets

1-Hour Mood booster

BE SMART, EAT HEALTHY

Rise of the Robots: UN Tries to Tackle ‘Mind-blowing’ Growth of AI