Category: Environment EN

Consumers Association Penang presents "Crisis in the MALAYSIAN Environment". A Film by Robert C.Crock (C) 1978 Assisted by, Rajeandran | Ravinder Singh | Khor Kok Peng | Evelyne Hong

"Plastics are commonly tossed into mixed-recycling bins to be conveniently collected and — we incorrectly assume — remade anew. The reality is that we’re “wishcycling.” In fact, less than 10 per cent of plastics are recycled. Virgin plastics are cheaper to produce than recycled products, undermining the viability of the recycling sector. For example, in 2019, California’s largest...

October 13 every year, marks the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), with a call by the UN General Assembly since 1989, for a day to promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction. This year’s International Day for DRR is focused on governance, with good disaster risk governance measured in lives saved, reduced numbers of disaster-affected people and...

 The increasing number of wildlife killed on our roads is an issue that Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) finds it increasingly difficult to ignore. The latest incident involved two tapirs while crossing the road. The first case happened in Terengganu where the tapir after being hit by a car stumbled into a nearby forest in an injured condition.  Injured wildlife often suffers long painful...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) welcomes the efforts of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and the Securities Commission (SC) in accelerating climate action through the financial sector, via the Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3) established to spearhead this. We laud the efforts of both BNM and the SC in taking the lead in accelerating climate action in the private sector, by ensuring that domestic...