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WHY YOU SHOULD BUY LESS CLOTHING

Lai Cheng April 14, 2025 0 Comments

Buying fewer clothes; choosing well, wearing well through re-use, repair, swapping and sharing; and making your clothes last can help to protect the environment. Here’s why: > Textiles (including clothing) have the 4th highest impact on climate change, after food, housing and transport. > Over 100 billion new items of clothes are made every year and less than 1% of material used to...

CAP: Pollution of Juru River Affecting Fishermen & Cockle Breeders

Lai Cheng April 14, 2025 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the Penang state government, Seberang Perai City Council (MBSP), Department of Environment (DOE), and Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) to conduct investigations and take immediate action to address the pollution of Juru River in the Central Seberang Perai (SPT) district. In a survey conducted by CAP, it was found that the pollution...

Empowering Young Energy Guardians at SJKC Union, Penang

Lai Cheng April 10, 2025 0 Comments

On 21 March 2025, the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) gave a talk on energy saving to around 800 students of SJKC Union. Our objective is to raise awareness among students about the importance of energy conservation and efficiency in combating climate change. As part of our initiative to promote sustainability, we appointed selected students from each class as Energy Monitors – young...

BAN HEAVY VEHICLES DURING PEAK HOURS

Lai Cheng April 9, 2025 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) reiterates our call to impose a ban on heavy vehicles during peak hours. The government has gazetted a ban on lorries on highways to and from Kuala Lumpur during peak hours, starting from February 19, 2025. This rule is to smoothen traffic flow in the Klang Valley by removing slow-moving heavy vehicles during peak hours. On 20th February 2025,...

PLASTIC IS MESSING WITH OUR HEALTH

Lai Cheng April 9, 2025 0 Comments

Our health is deeply connected to the environment – and today, we're facing an invisible threat: microplastics inside our bodies. Plastic is everywhere. It is found in our food, water, and even the air we breathe. Microplastics have been linked to inflammation, hormonal disruption, and serious illnesses. This #WorldHealthDay, let's demand a strong #PlasticsTreaty that will tackle chemicals that...

THE BUYING TRAP: How We Become Mindless Consumers

Lai Cheng April 8, 2025 0 Comments

There are stealthy societal and marketplace pressures that make us unhappy – without us realising it. Manufactures for example, create new products that we don't really need so that we become addicted to the useless, and become trapped in consumerism. If you feel less, they can sell you more. In Reasons to Stay Alive, a book about depression and how to overcome it, author Matt Haig brilliantly...

Wildlife Smuggling at KLIA: A National Embarrassment

Lai Cheng April 8, 2025 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is alarmed by yet another case of wildlife smuggling involving exotic species through Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), which remains a key transit point for traffickers in the booming illegal wildlife trade. In early March, two smugglers boarded a Malaysia Airlines flight to Chennai with wildlife concealed in a suitcase, passing undetected...

CAP Urges Ban on Insurance Promotion in Banks

Lai Cheng April 7, 2025 0 Comments

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to prohibit financial institutions from promoting any form of insurance, particularly investment-linked insurance, within their premises. We have received complaints that bank officers approached customers inside bank premises to promote investment-linked insurance as a ‘better investment option offering higher returns...

NO SUCH THING AS “AWAY”

Lai Cheng April 7, 2025 0 Comments

Our trash doesn’t simply vanish when we throw it out. “There is no such thing as ‘away’,” Annie Leonard, former executive director of Greenpeace USA, says in her book, The Story of Stuff. “When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” It ends up in a landfill, incinerator, or the environment.

SAY NO TO HATE

Lai Cheng April 7, 2025 0 Comments

Hate speech is rising around the world. Hate speech incites violence and intolerance. The devastating effect of hatred is sadly nothing new. However, its scale and impact are now amplified by new communications technologies. Hate speech – including online – has become one of the most common ways of spreading divisive rhetoric on a global scale, threatening peace around the world. We all have...

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