NATURAL PEST CONTROL FOR TREES
Natural pest control straight from Mexico! Painting tree trunks with a white lime solution can deter insects from climbing and damaging your trees. Source: Young Farmer
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CAP Calls for a Total Ban on Smoking and Vaping to Prevent a Public Health Crisis
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) maintains that the only effective way to control smoking, vaping, and their related activities is to implement a total ban on smoking products. Illicit drug-laced vape liquids create drug addicts and cause premature deaths from drug overdoses, leading to a public health crisis that will place a heavy burden on the country’s healthcare system. Past...
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Are You Aware of Your Consumer Rights?
This World Consumer Rights Day, we highlight your rights as a consumer and the importance of a just transition to sustainable lifestyles. As consumers, we have 8 fundamental rights: > Right to Basic Needs – the right to access essential goods and services necessary for survival, including adequate food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education and sanitation > Right to Safety – the...
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We Need a Just Transition to a Sustainable Lifestyle
This #WorldConsumerRightsDay, the Consumers’ Association of Penang joins the global consumer movement to call for a just transition to #sustainablelifestyles. Together, we spotlight the need and roadmap to make sustainable choices available, affordable, and accessible – for people and the planet. Read more: #ConsumerRights #WCRD2025 #SustainableLifestyles #JustTransition
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World Consumer Rights Day 2025 – A Just Transition to Sustainable Lifestyles
World Consumer Rights Day is a United Nations-accredited campaign celebrated annually on March 15 since 1983. This year’s theme, “A Just Transition to Sustainable Lifestyles”, calls for fairness and sustainability as we tackle environmental and social challenges. The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls on governments, businesses and consumers to take necessary action for a...
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Air Pollution a Key Reason for Lung Cancer Among Non-Smokers
Worsening air pollution globally is causing lung cancer rates to rise everywhere. A look at Taiwan, where a majority of new cases affect non-smokers, offers powerful lessons for the rest of the world. Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one US study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8% to 15% over 20 years. A British study found...
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Voice of the People: Tighten Controls on Waste Processing, Ban Importation of E-Waste
For years, the residents of Kuala Langat, Klang and Hulu Selangor, including those from Banting, Jenjarom, Sijangkang, Olak Lempit, Telok Panglima Garang, Pulau Carey, Meru, Kapar, Rasa, and many more, have suffered greatly from pollution by irresponsible illegal waste processing factories and dumpsites. Many waste processing factories, including electronic waste (e-waste), operate in our...
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WE DEPEND ON NATURE, LET’S PRESERVE IT
If we can’t live without water, why are we poisoning our rivers? If we can’t live without forests, why are we cutting them down? If we can’t live without soil, why are we stripping it of life? We depend on nature – not the other way around. So why are we pushing our best ally to the brink? Source: UN Environment Programme
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Avoid Plastic Materials during Floating Chariot Festival
The Penang State Exco for Housing and Environment, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP), the Penang State Green Council (PGC), The Penang State Malaysia Hindu Sangam (MHS) and the management of the Sri Singamuga Kaliamman Temple in Teluk Bahang urge Hindu devotees not to use any kind of synthetic foam material or plastic during the celebration of Masi Maga Theppa Thiruvizha, a floating...
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Robust Safeguards on Carbon Capture Needed Before Any Implementation
It is indeed deeply regrettable that the Dewan Rakyat quickly passed the Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) Bill on Thursday, 6 March, despite the raising of many critical issues by several Members of Parliament (MPs), especially from the opposition bench, which did not get meaningful responses. The MPs echoed the concerns raised by NGOs on the Bill’s shortcomings, particularly in...
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