KOTA KINABALU: World Wildlife Fund-Malaysia and city hall are organising a workshop to train people in Inanam here to become river rangers.Mayor Datuk Yeo Boon Hai said the local authority supported the River Rangers programme as it was in line with its vision to make the city clean, green and Read more…
Jakarta. Indonesia and Denmark signed an action plan on Tuesday (28/11) for their 2017-2020 partnership, marking a new chapter in bilateral relations. The action plan is a follow-up to the Indonesia-Denmark Innovative Partnership Agreement signed during a visit by Queen Margrethe II in 2015. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Prime Read more…
THAILAND’S GOAL to gradually eradicate plastic waste at sea by 80 million to 160 million kilograms a year by 2021, is expected to be affirmed by Jatuporn Burutpat, chief of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, at the upcoming Asean and China Sea Waste Reduction Meeting, to be held Read more…
TEAMS from five schools presented their green initiatives conducted in the last two months at the closing ceremony of the MPMA-Dow-GEC River Ranger Programme 2017 at Sri Bestari International School, Kuala Lumpur. The programme run by Global Environment Centre (GEC), saw a partnership with the Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers Association (MPMA) Read more…
Residents and local leaders want the government to be transparent about the proposed waste-to-energy plant and its Environment Impact Assessment results. Kepong folk especially, were sceptical about the project and urged the Government to reveal details of the plant. Kepong Community Service Centre head Yee Poh Ping, who had been Read more…
The extent of the damage wrought by plastic on our environment is increasingly well known. Yet, this harmful material permeates the majority of the consumer items we buy and use. Mounds of trash, garbage islands in the ocean and the suffering and death of countless fish, birds and other animals Read more…
New Delhi, Nov 26 (UNI) Alappuzha is among five cities of the world whose efforts to fight the problem of solid waste have been recognised as success stories by the United Nations environment body UNEP. Besides Alappuzha, the other cities with a solid approach to waste are Osaka in Japan, Read more…
Recently, some crazy scientists in Bristol, UK have discovered how to charge their smartphones with their own pee. By using micro-organisms which feed off their urine and generate electrons as a by-product, they have managed to produce enough electricity to charge a phone or power some lights. Although we can Read more…
FIRST off, congratulations are in order to the Selangor state government for finally approving the Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) facility next to the Jeram landfill in Kuala Selangor. This will include a waste-to-energy (WTE) plant, a recycling plant, anaerobic digestion plant, compost plant, construction waste recycling site and a Read more…
In spite of the measurement struggle, providing control and monitoring capability in recycling operations globally is a vital capability for cost effective functioning of collection and processing operations. Waste chute collection and compacting systems are equipment commonly encountered when dealing with multi-unit residential systems, plastic material regrind operations, waste recycling Read more…