WMAM just its 2nd Training Series of the year with an overwhelming response. The training was attended by 100 participants from various industries and backgrounds. The session covered Effective Waste Collection & Optimisation with speakers from JPSPN, AMPM & KDEB Read more…
TWO plastic recycling factories in Prai industrial area had their operational equipment seized during a raid by the Penang Department of Environment (DOE). Its director Sharifah Zakiah Syed Sahab said in the first raid, the premises was found to have Read more…
PETALING JAYA: As the whole world battles the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of face masks has become a daily necessity but experts are increasingly concerned that the indiscriminate disposal of surgical face masks is harming wildlife. Macaques in Kuala Lumpur, Read more…
ANSWERING the earlier calls from the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) to turn to Cuti-Cuti Malaysia to help the local domestic tourism industry, my family and I decided to spend a weekend at Redang Island recently. Interestingly, Read more…
The Ocean Cleanup develops technology to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. To do so, we need to not only clean up the plastic that is currently there, but also stop new plastic from entering the ocean via rivers. In Read more…
By Lee Yu Wee Trienekens (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd manages and operates the Kuching Integrated Waste Management Park – an integrated facility for the treatment and disposal of both municipal and hazardous waste. Located in Kuching, Sarawak; components include a Level Read more…
KUALA PILAH: Never in her wildest dreams did street sweeper Chan Mun Thye think she would be officially honoured for her services, let alone be the recipient of a state award. But that is exactly what happened to the 60-year-old Read more…
For over two decades, many developed countries have sent massive amounts of plastic wastes to China for recycling. But that option is drying up following a Chinese ban on rubbish imports this year, forcing countries, particularly developed nations, to seriously Read more…
FROM Oct 22 to Oct 24, an important world event, which took place at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, almost went unnoticed by the general public. The event was the congregation of the best in the waste management industry at the Read more…
PUTRAJAYA: Plastic straws will be banned in all the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan from Jan 1 next year. Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Adnan Mohd Ikhsan said businesses which are still found to be using plastic straws Read more…