Category: Environment EN

ZERO WASTE should be a central job-creation strategy in COVID-19 economic recovery plans. Recent data from cities around the world clearly shows that zero waste CREATES OVER 200 TIMES AS MANY JOBS as landfills and incinerators. What’s good for the environment is also good for the economy! The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the many other illnesses within our current system. With the connected...

188 Environmental Groups Call for an End to Single Use Products, as the United Nations Environment Assembly gets set to discuss sustainability. Make “throwaway go away” if you care about the planet, the groups say. February 17, 2021 – As government representatives from 193 member states prepare to discuss “Strengthening Actions for Nature”, 188 environmental groups from around the...

Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the Penang State Government not to commence work on the PSR project as there is an appeal by the fishing community affected by the project against the approval of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report by the Director General of Environmental Quality. The Environmental Quality Act 1974 empowers an aggrieved person to appeal against the...

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“DEAD River” a LIVING Nightmare. The 40-year-old Sungai Kereh pig waste pollution issue affects 10,000 residents in the vicinity who have to bear with the nauseating stench, and 2,000 residents who depend on the river as a source of livelihood.  See the flyer below for the full details. ..

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP), Penang Sustainable Natural Heritage Association (LEKAS) and Sungai Kereh Pollution Protest Action Body hope that the Sungai Kereh pollution caused by pig farming activities in Kampung Selamat, Tasek Gelugor, Penang will be resolved immediately because the residents here have been plagued by the pollution of this river for more than 40 years. CAP,...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) has leveraged the existing #waste segregation-at-source policy in the state of Penang, which has been enforced since the 1st June 2017. The policy was limited to separation and collection of dry and clean recyclables such as paper, plastic, glass, aluminium cans, and metals, among others. There is still room for much improvement though, as organic...

Long time stigmatised and unfairly portrayed as being responsible for the plastic #waste crisis, South East Asian countries constitute the perfect culprit for northern countries’ unsustainable practices and ways of living. Despite the false accusations, these countries are the centre of some sustainable and long-term initiatives. The story of Penang, a state in northwest Malaysia with a...

The European Union is shipping a great part of its #waste across the world, generating negative environmental, social & economic impacts. Together with GAIA and Friends of the Earth Malaysia, Zero Waste Europe has recently released a new case study that illustrates what's happening in one of the most affected country: Malaysia. This case study shows that illegal plastic waste exports to...

CAP is participating in the International Zero Waste Cities Conference 2021. We had hosted the 2019 conference.