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Month: October 2023

Month: October 2023

JUST RELEASED: A New GLOBAL PLASTIC LAWS DATABASE

Lai Cheng October 19, 2023 0 Comments
A new Global Plastic Laws Database has just been launched. It tracks legislation across the full life cycle of plastics and organizes these policies according to life cycle categories and key topics. Adopting policies to reduce plastic pollution on a global scale is widely recognized as a vital step to address this crisis and its associated detrimental impacts on our communities, health, and...
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THE PLASTIC WASTE CRISIS & REAL SOLUTIONS NEEDED (PART 4)

Lai Cheng October 19, 2023 0 Comments
Europe Should Stop Exporting Plastic Wastes to Malaysia and Other Countries A new report issued by the European Commission this summer indicates that 19 out of the 27 European Union (EU) states are at risk of missing their plastics recycling targets. Their collective goal was to recycle 50% of their plastic waste – it doesn’t appear they will get there by 2025. Turkey has in effect, become...
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THE PLASTIC WASTE CRISIS & REAL SOLUTIONS NEEDED (PART 3)

Lai Cheng October 18, 2023 0 Comments
PLASTIC POLLUTION SPILLS AT SEA The X-Press Pearl Cargo Ship Fire and the Environmental Disaster It Created In May 2021 there was an ecological crisis that most people did not hear about, as it happened in the throes of the Covid pandemic. The cargo ship X-Press Pearl caught fire outside of Sri Lanka, spilling nearly 2,000 tonnes of plastic pellets and nearly 10,000 tonnes of toxic chemicals...
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Health Benefits of Eggs

Lai Cheng October 18, 2023 0 Comments
They Offer Complete Protein One egg has 6 grams of the stuff, with all 9 “essential” amino acids, the building blocks of protein. That’s important because those are the ones your body can’t make by itself. The egg white holds about half that protein and only a small portion of the fat and cholesterol.   They're Nutrient Dense That means eggs have more nutrients – vitamins, minerals,...
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Indigenous tribes made ill from processed foods

Lai Cheng October 17, 2023 0 Comments
by Monica Piccinini Malnutrition and chronic disease are impacting remote Amazonian tribes because of an influx of ultra-processed foods. The health conditions afflicting the Yanonami community in the Brazilian Amazon such as malnutrition and chronic diseases are a result of the violation of their rights, unstable socio-economic conditions, and ongoing land disputes. These circumstances have led...
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THE PLASTIC WASTE CRISIS & REAL SOLUTIONS NEEDED (PART 2)

Lai Cheng October 17, 2023 0 Comments
WASTE COLONIALISM Dumping of Plastic Waste in Developing Countries Affects Local People’s Health and Environment, Creates Microplastics Problem The global plastics production and trade of plastic waste has grown tremendously over the recent decades. Plastic waste is mostly traded under the banner of plastic “recycling”. A rich and developed country should have the capacity to manage its...
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Philip Morris lobbying to stop WHO ‘attack’ on vapes and similar products

Lai Cheng October 17, 2023 0 Comments
Exclusive: Leaked email shows firm behind Marlboro cigarettes critical of global ‘prohibitionist’ agenda Philip Morris International (PMI), the tobacco and vaping company behind Marlboro cigarettes, is waging a big lobbying campaign to prevent countries from cracking down on vapes and similar products as part of a global treaty, a leaked email reveals. The company, which has been...
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Shame! After 66 years, we’ve raised rice production by a mere 6.6%

Lai Cheng October 16, 2023 0 Comments
by A. Kathirasen The public expects elected governments to plan for the long term, in particular on matters concerning their basic needs, but it appears that governments over the years have failed to ensure food security. People are understandably upset and angry over the rise in the prices of imported rice and the apparent shortage of local rice in some areas. And many are blaming the...
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THE PLASTIC WASTE CRISIS & REAL SOLUTIONS NEEDED (PART 1)

Lai Cheng October 16, 2023 0 Comments
CAP’s Work and Action on the Plastic Waste Trade Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) and Friends of the Earth Malaysia are members of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and also Break Free from Plastic. In 2017, our organisation through a GAIA project had started research on the impacts of waste trade, tracking the movement of plastic waste globally. During that time...
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