BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kuching BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20190107T080000 RDATE:20380119T111407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:Asia/Kuching +08 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7558b326f3d3c1d5033953ac8d1d9cb7 CATEGORIES:In The Media CREATED:20200110T093145 SUMMARY:Varsity embarks towards zero usage single-use plastic DESCRIPTION:
KUCHING: I n an effort to tackle plastic pollution, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMA S) has embarked towards zero usage of single-use plastics.
Its Vice C hancellor, Prof Datuk Dr Mohamad Kadim Suaidi revealed that the varsity aim s to educate its students and staff on the importance and the negative impa cts of single-use plastics.
“ Our efforts is in line with four Sustai nable Development Goals (SGDs). Hopefully, this will bring some impact to o ur community,” he said, adding that the people are living on a borrowed pla net and are bpund to keep it clean and halthy.
“ It starts from us, o ur family, office and hopefully, we can spread to the whole UNIMAS.”
In the 2018, United Nations (UN) Environment’ Single-Use Plastics A Roadmap for Sustainability’ report, it was estimated that between one and five tri llion plastic bags were consumed worldwide each year.
The report adde d that five trillion plastic bags was almost equivalent to 10 million plast ic bags a minute. If tied together, they would go around the world seven ti mes every hour and cover an area twice the size of France.
Meanwhile, the studies revealed that plastic bags can take up to thousands of years t o decompose and contaminate soil and water, pose ingestion and entanglement hazards to wildlife. To this, Malaysia has set a targer to abolish single- use plastics bag by 2030.
Source from : New Sarawak Tribune
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