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Year: 2025

Year: 2025

WEAR CLOTHES LONGER, SAVE THE PLANET

Lai Cheng August 22, 2025 0 Comments
Critics say the fashion industry, fuelled by one of the world’s most powerful marketing engines, has long encouraged consumers to buy more clothes than they need. Research shows that people are buying more clothes, but they don’t stay in closets for long. This fuels overproduction and waste. An easy fix? Wear them longer – the planet will thank you! What else you can do: Repair or alter...
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CAP Calls for Stricter Regulation of Electronic Advertising Billboards to Prevent Road Accidents

Soon Lian August 21, 2025 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and local authorities to review and regulate the rapid increase in electronic advertising billboards along major roads. These digital billboards, with their highly conspicuous and rapidly changing displays, pose a serious risk of distracting drivers and compromising road safety. Our recent survey in...
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Say No to NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Lai Cheng August 21, 2025 0 Comments
A Quick Killer and Destroyer of Worlds There is a tool that can unmake us. It begins with a flash so bright that, through closed eyes and cupped hands, you could see the bones of the people huddled around you. Within minutes, it evaporates major cities and sends every one of the 12,000 or so airborne passenger aircraft tumbling from the sky. Within days, it sparks anarchy as governments and...
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8 Foods that Weaken the Bones

Lai Cheng August 20, 2025 0 Comments
Bones are like the backstage crew of the body – hardly noticed, yet running the whole show. They keep everything upright, protect delicate organs, and even store minerals for emergencies. But here’s the twist: while they’re built to last, they’re also quietly affected by what’s on the plate every day. And sometimes, without even realising it, the food choices made out of habit,...
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Cowardly Attack on Rafizi’s Family Must Not Go Unpunished

Lai Cheng August 18, 2025 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) strongly condemns the cowardly attack on the former Economy Minister's 10 year-old son at a mall in Putrajaya, followed by further threats to his family. Such behaviour is vile, disgraceful and an affront to basic decency, revealing the perpetrators’ inability or refusal to face the person concerned through lawful means such as the courts or the...
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WHO IS THE REAL PREDATOR?

Lai Cheng August 18, 2025 0 Comments
If wildlife could speak they would tell us that humans are the most terrifying predator on the planet. Wildlife worldwide fear the human ‘super predator’ far more than other predators, studies show. > A 2023 African study reveals that animals (eg: giraffes, leopards, zebras, warthogs and hyenas) were twice as likely to flee, and they abandoned waterholes 40% faster in response to human...
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Public Space Revolution

Lai Cheng August 18, 2025 0 Comments
BUS STOPS BECOME COMMUNITY GARDENS In the UK, certain bus stops in London have been transformed into community-run “Edible Bus Stops”, where volunteers grow herbs, vegetables, fruit trees, and flowers beside the shelters. The project aimed at beautifying urban spaces, promotes healthy eating, and fosters community engagement. Local volunteers and groups maintain the gardens, fostering a...
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THE MAGIC OF THE FOREST

Lai Cheng August 18, 2025 0 Comments
There is something deeply enchanting about entering a forest, as if, with each step beneath the canopy, we are leaving behind the noise of the world and stepping into a realm woven from stillness and wonder. The air changes, softer, richer; the light dances through the leaves like quiet magic. It feels less like walking into nature, and more like being welcomed into an ancient, peaceful world,...
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Plastics Treaty Talks End in ‘Abject Failure’ as US, Other Big Oil Allies Sabotage Progress

Lai Cheng August 18, 2025 0 Comments
"The vast majority of governments want a strong agreement, yet a handful of bad actors were allowed to use process to drive such ambition into the ground," said one environmentalist. Negotiators in Geneva adjourned what was expected to be the final round of plastics treaty negotiations on Friday without reaching an agreement, a failure that environmentalists blamed on the Trump-led United...
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ROPE CANOPY BRIDGES

Lai Cheng August 15, 2025 0 Comments
A Simple Way to Protect Tree Animals from Roadkill Rope bridges – “monkey bridges” stretching above roads and highways – help tree-dwelling animals cross safely between treetops. Some countries like Sri Lanka, are now using such rope canopy bridges to let monkeys and squirrels cross safely, reducing roadkill and keeping the animals’ forest routes connected. These canopy links not only...
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