Lai Cheng

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) supports the Prime Minister’s pledge yesterday to review the disastrous mega PSR project which has come under bitter criticism from civil society organisations including CAP. The Prime Minister’s message indicates that the mega PSR project is defective in its planning and design and raises serious questions about the State Government’s competence...

The oil industry asserts that all plastic is recyclable. Numerous investigations have found it largely is not, and the vast majority of US plastic that consumers thought would go to a recycling center to be reused is actually burned or buried. Troves of documents have shown oil and plastic industry leadership and executives have known that plastic recycling will almost never make financial sense...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) appeals to the Prime Minister (PM) of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and the Unity Government to take steps to cancel the wasteful Penang South Reclamation (PSR) project which will cause irreversible damage to the environment and the fishing community. CAP welcomes the PM’s recent statement that he had concerns about the PSR project and...

The 71 conditions imposed on the Penang South Islands project would not ease the public’s concerns as they were all about mitigation, and comprised offset programmes that include setting up artificial reefs and fish aggregating devices which could not replace a complex ecosystem. “This is not a trade off, but a write off,” said SAM president Meenakshi Raman in an interview with Astro....

Asian Development Bank (ADB) – Asia and the Pacific’s Climate Bank – has invested at least 1 billion USD in waste incineration, including so-called “waste-to-energy” (WtE) incineration, as a recommended method for municipal solid waste management for its borrowing member countries. Despite documented negative impacts of WtE facilities on public health, environment, economy, and...