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Month: September 2023

Month: September 2023

Malaysia must return to prefab low and low-medium cost homes

Lai Cheng September 25, 2023 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges the government to revert to prefabricated low and low-medium cost flats and apartments. Malaysia adopted a prefabricated building system (also known as ‘prefab’) in the late 1960s, building low-cost flats in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, being the first Asian country to do so. Rifle Range, Kampung Melayu, and Noordin Street Ghaut flats in Penang;...
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Phase Out Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Lai Cheng September 25, 2023 0 Comments
Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) make up a relatively small share of all registered pesticides. Yet, they cause the most severe harm to human health and the environment. Each year, around 400 million farmers and farmworkers are poisoned by pesticides, resulting in at least 11,000 deaths. Because they are highly toxic, HHPs are responsible for a large number of these acute unintentional...
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18 Asian NGOs Call on Europe to Ban Amalgam Exports & Manufacturing

Lai Cheng September 22, 2023 0 Comments
18 civil society organisations in Asia – including Consumers Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia – have sent a letter to the European Union (EU), urging for a ban on amalgam exports and manufacturing. Amalgam is a primitive, tooth unfriendly holdover of dentistry of an earlier era, an uncontrollable pollutant that poisons fish and vegetables that children eat. This is their...
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United Nations Seems to Boost Plastics Industry Interests, Critics Say

Lai Cheng September 22, 2023 0 Comments
Ahead of a groundbreaking treaty to reduce plastic pollution, a group of independent scientists fear that the United Nations is legitimizing industry-backed proposals such as chemical recycling. The plastic crisis has grown exponentially. Despite marketing claims, less than 10% of the plastic waste from recent decades has been recycled. The rest gets incinerated, is buried in landfills or piles...
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PHASE OUT HIGHLY HAZARDOUS PESTICIDES

Lai Cheng September 22, 2023 0 Comments
On 25 to 29 September 2023, governments and other stakeholders will gather in Bonn, Germany in a once in a generation opportunity to address the #toxiccrisis. Hosted by UNEP, the Strategic Approach on International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is the only global multi-stakeholder platform for chemicals and waste policy. However, SAICM’s lack of ambition and decisive action on Highly Hazardous...
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SITTING TOO MUCH CAN HARM YOU

Lai Cheng September 22, 2023 0 Comments
Sitting too much can be a risk to your health. Studies have linked being inactive with being overweight and obese, Type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, and early death. Sitting for long periods is thought to slow the metabolism, which affects the body's ability to regulate blood sugar, blood pressure and break down body fat. If your work or studies require you to sit for long hours, it’s...
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This Treaty Could Stop Plastic Pollution—or Doom the Earth to Drown in It

Lai Cheng September 20, 2023 0 Comments
The UN has released a draft of what might become a landmark agreement to protect human health and the environment. Emphasis on might. GIVEN THE CEASELESS procession of disasters this summer—from heat domes to hurricanes to the fiery destruction of Lahaina—the slow-motion disaster of plastic pollution may not be top of mind. But the United Nations recently released a “zero...
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Why Billionaires Don’t Buy Expensive Clothes and What They Do Instead

Lai Cheng September 20, 2023 0 Comments
The top billionaires and millionaires of the world could easily spend money on expensive clothes, but they don't. You'll never see Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, or Warren Buffett decked out in expensive brands, and for good reason. Because they recognise it as a needless expense. After all, wearing designer labels isn’t going to add to their success or enhance their work. Gates spends so little...
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