“The formation of the Alliance is a step in the right direction. It can help raise the standards of waste management,” says Senior Minister of State for the Environment and Water Ministry Dr Amy Khor who witnessed the signing. SINGAPORE: To boost efforts for greater sustainability in Southeast Asia’s waste Read more…
6 waste management associations ink MoU to boost efforts in Southeast Asia “The formation of the Alliance is a step in the right direction. It can help raise the standards of waste management,”says Senior Minister of State for the Environment and Water Ministry Dr Amy Khor who witnessed the signing. SINGAPORE: To Read more…
THE concept of reducing, reusing and recycling has been drummed into us since childhood by television jingles and schoolteachers. But for the most part, the cause and effects of indiscriminate waste dumping seems largely unheeded in our day-to-day practices, leading to a rise in dengue cases and pests. The Read more…
Polluting air in Pandamaran HUNDREDS of scrap tyres are being dumped and burnt at a light industrial area off Persiaran Selat Selatan in Pandamaran by syndicates who offer cheaper disposal rates to workshops and those in the tyre trade. Several workshops around Pandamaran and Port Klang sell used tyres Read more…
Nor Hisham (second from left) and MPSJ Environment Department head Azura Mohd Don (left) looking on as a waste collection contractor brings in food waste. ONE man’s trash can be another man’s treasure and soon you will be able to trade in food waste for money as the Subang Jaya Read more…
Irresponsible act: Old tables from a restaurant in Petaling Jaya are dumped on a piece of land off a main road in Section 18, Petaling Jaya. -EDWARD RAJENDRA/The Star ILLEGAL dumping of bulk waste is a never-ending problem in Selangor and some local councils are paying private contractors millions Read more…