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Milestone for Campaign to Stop New Zealand Sending Plastic Waste to Malaysia

Lai Cheng June 2, 2023 0 Comments

Lydia Chai, a Malaysian lawyer based in Auckland, has been campaigning for New Zealand to stop sending plastic waste to Malaysia and other developing countries. Her campaign garnered a lot of media interest, including comments by then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. 11,500 people signed Chai’s petition. On Thursday 8 June 2023 at 6:40am Malaysian time, Chai will be facing off against industry...

FOODS TO EAT TO STAY YOUNG

Lai Cheng June 2, 2023 0 Comments

Do You Know: There is a strong relationship between diet, health, and youthful-appearing skin. Studies have shown that an imbalance in nutrition and poor eating habits are important causes of skin ageing. You can look older if you’re eating crap. Ageing is basically a chronic inflammatory state. Poor-quality foods, like trans fats, cause inflammation. The same goes with eating too much sugar...

Demand and corruption facilitates wildlife smuggling

Lai Cheng June 1, 2023 0 Comments

The Consumer Association of Penang (CAP) welcomes the recent arrests of wildlife poachers and the seizure of wildlife parts worth millions of ringgit. Nonetheless, the sheer quantity of wildlife contraband seized, including those seized en-route to or re-exported from Malaysia, is alarming. Several raids around the country, complete with wildlife seizures, do not necessarily mean that law...

CAP’s Agroecological Urban Gardening Project Listed in Transformative Cities ATLAS OF UTOPIAS

Lai Cheng June 1, 2023 0 Comments

Atlas of Utopias, the Transformative Cities compilation of local utopias from all across the globe, has been revised and updated – 40 communities from 34 cities and 23 countries – and CAP’s urban farming and gardening project is listed in it. The Atlas showcases stories from communities around the world involved in transformation of housing, water, food and energy policies and practices....

“PENANG AS AN AGE-FRIENDLY CITY” SURVEY

Lai Cheng May 31, 2023 0 Comments

The Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society and the Penang Women's Development Corporation are calling on all Penangites to participate in a State Government plan to make Penang an Age-Friendly City. This refers to Penang’s initiative to be an Age-Friendly City for all young, older, and people with disabilities to access outdoor spaces, transportation, housing, social activities, communication,...

GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY (INC-2) (29 May to 2 June 2023)

Lai Cheng May 31, 2023 0 Comments

Insights on the First Day Talks The first day of the Plastics Treaty Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) has come to an end with a mix of highs and lows. Here are some observations of the first day talks made by Break Free From Plastic (see images). PREVIOUSLY: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which is hosting the talks, released a blueprint for reducing plastic waste by 80% by...

GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY (INC-2) (29 May to 2 June 2023)

Lai Cheng May 30, 2023 0 Comments

Reject False Solutions & Ineffective Techno-Fixes For the Global #PlasticsTreaty to be effective, the treaty must include legally binding, time-bound, and ambitious targets to scale up reuse, refill, and alternative product delivery systems to accelerate the transition away from single-use plastics. Correspondingly, the treaty must reject false solutions, regrettable substitutes, and...

GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY (INC-2) (29 May to 2 June 2023)

Lai Cheng May 30, 2023 0 Comments

A Brief Recap of Previous Negotiations The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) for Plastics will take place in Paris, France, from 29 May to 2 June 2023. This United Nations committee will in Paris to work on what is intended to be a landmark treaty to bring an end to global plastic pollution. The Committee is charged with developing the first international,...

We need food, not nicotine addiction

Lai Cheng May 30, 2023 0 Comments

This year’s theme for World No Tobacco Day, ‘We need food, not tobacco’, is relevant to Malaysia although the tobacco farmers began switching over to kenaf cultivation about a decade ago. The tobacco industry is now focused on pushing the highly addictive nicotine as a substitute. Whether people smoke conventional cigarettes or electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS), or Heated Tobacco...

MERCURY IN COSMETICS CAN DAMAGE THE KIDNEYS

Lai Cheng May 30, 2023 0 Comments

Skin-whitening creams with mercury that promise you fair skin and anti-ageing effects have a hidden threat – kidney damage. Using such products can result in renal damage that may require costly medical treatment and hospitalization, cautions the Philippines Ecowaste Coalition in a recent press release. The group cited 2 examples of kidney-damaging mercury-added cosmetics: the Pakistan-made...

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