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Day: April 3, 2025

Day: April 3, 2025

Open Letter to UN-HABITAT: Promote Zero Waste, Not Waste Burning!

Lai Cheng April 3, 2025 0 Comments
GAIA and over 100 civil society groups across five continents (including Consumers’ Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia) are calling on UN-HABITAT to stop promoting "waste-to-energy" incineration—a harmful, outdated, and unjust approach to waste management. Incineration is NOT sustainable. It harms public health, deepens environmental injustices, and undermines real climate...
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CREATE A GOOD DAY, LIVE HAPPIER

Lai Cheng April 3, 2025 0 Comments
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. One of the world’s greatest thinkers Aristotle, taught this: "Happiness depends upon ourselves." You are the only one who can make your life happier – and better. Live each day to the fullest. Wake up early, enjoy nature, and live in the moment. To live a happier and healthy life, eat nourishing food, get enough sleep, be...
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Call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Putra Heights Gas Pipeline Fire

Lai Cheng April 3, 2025 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls for the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the 1 April gas pipeline fire in Putra Heights and to ensure that such a disaster does not recur. Questions have arisen on what went wrong and why the automated safety mechanism for the gas pipeline failed to trigger and how come the gas pipeline was so close to residential...
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AIR POLLUTION AFFECTS OUR VITAL ORGANS

Lai Cheng April 3, 2025 0 Comments
From smog hanging over cities to smoke inside the home, air pollution poses a major threat to health and climate across the globe. Air pollution is the presence of one or more contaminants in the atmosphere, such as dust, fumes, gas, mist, odour, smoke or vapour, in quantities and duration that can be injurious to human health. The main pathway of exposure from air pollution is through the...
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL COST OF FASHION

Lai Cheng April 3, 2025 0 Comments
The true cost of fashion is more than what’s on the price tag – it lingers in pollution, water waste, and emissions. Between 2000 and 2015, clothing production had doubled. It is estimated that 92 million tonnes of textile waste is generated worldwide each year. This is equivalent to a truckload of clothing being incinerated or sent to landfills every second. Fashion shouldn’t come at the...
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