A motorcyclist passing by an illegal dumpsite along the road at Pasir Pinji. — filepic THE IPOH City Council is mulling a plan to have litterbugs do community services in its bid to stop illegal dumpsites being created. Ipoh Mayor Datuk Zamri Man said the council is now discussing the Read more…
One big mix: This recycling cage in PPR Kampung Limau in Pantai Dalam, Bangsar, is a good reflection of the apathy of the residents living there. They clearly did not follow the simple three-step rule to segregate their waste. — SHAZWAN ZAIDON/The Star MORE than half of the 1,153 Read more…
STARTING January next year, Selangor will ban the use of polystyrene containers and extend the No Plastic Bag Day on Saturdays to seven days a week. Green Technology and Environment committee chairman Elizabeth Wong said all official events and buildings of the Selangor state government would stop using plastic bags Read more…
A TEAM has been formed in Perak to educate the public to embrace recycling in order to reduce the use of plastic bags and polystyrene containers. Ipoh City Watch (ICW) President Prof Dr Richard Ng said the main objective of the committee, known as the Perak Action Team for a Read more…
IT is only right to practise good neighbourliness, however, it is tough to practise this when you end up having neighbours who simply lack civic-consciousness. Just like the thieves who appear after dark; some neighbours will sneak out when nobody’s watching and dump their pile of rubbish nearby their neighbour’s Read more…
BUSINESS owners, who dispose of more than their share of rubbish, will be penalised by the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) beginning September. Council president Abdul Hamid Abdul Hussain said many businesses were found to be generating abnormally high quantities of rubbish, more than the cost of collecting and disposing Read more…
Dirty and stinky: Contract workers wading through the waters at the downstream of Batu River in Selangor to clear trash trapped at the log boom. – ROYCE TAN/The Star IPOH: Every second, someone is dumping rubbish into Malaysian waterways and an average of 2,200 tonnes of rubbish is being collected Read more…
2017 ISWA-SWIS COMPETITION ON SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT ESSAY
KUALA LUMPUR: The Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry is open to greater public engagement over the proposed RM800mil incinerator project in Kepong here. Its minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan issued the invitation to help ease fears over the proposal to build the incinerator in Taman Bering after Read more…