Waste Management

ALAM Flora collects an average of 5,800 tonnes of waste each day within its concession areas, namely Selangor, Pahang and the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur as well as Putrajaya. In 2009, the company collected approximately 2.1 million tonnes of waste. Now, that’s a lot of waste; most of which could have been reduced if…

A new sugar-based polymer could be used to make common food containers compostable at home right alongside your potato peels and egg shells. A team of engineers and scientists at the Imperial College London led by Charlotte Williams in partnership with BioCeramic Therapeutics have created a degradable material from sugars derived from the breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass….

For the first time, the medals awarded at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will contain recycled materials. By Rachel Cernansky Boulder, CO, USA | Tue Feb 16, 2010 04:00 PM ET I haven’t been paying much attention to the Olympics, but there’s one piece of news coming out of Vancouver that I find totally…

Think before you buy … lest the purchase is unnece or made of non-biodegradable material and will damage the environment and come back to haunt you … in stinking water from the tap and costlier water treatment. And go back to basics. Bring the tiffin-carrier for takeaway food. Bring a big reusable bag when you…

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 (Bernama) — Environmental groups have lauded the government’s move to allocate a whopping RM1.9 billion to preserve the nation’s environment. Of the RM1.9 billion allocated, RM1.3 billion was for solid waste management, Global Environment Centre Director Faizal Parish said Friday. He said the move was timely as solid waste was the…