NGOs want more companies to protect the environment

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PETALING JAYA: As environmental issues continue to make headlines in the country, NGOs are calling for private companies to boost efforts on protecting the environment.

News of the Sungai Kim Kim toxic waste dumping and illegal plastic recycling factories have highlighted how business interests must not supersede environmental responsibility.

Businesses recorded the largest jump in their environmental protection expenses in 2015, with a 13.7% increase from the year before. “However, if the environmentally-friendly manufacturing process increase costs and reduce profit, corporations will usually refrain from practising them,” he said. Environmental activist Puan Sri Shariffa Sabrina Syed Akil also said the increase in companies’ expenditure on environmental protection was still not enough.

 

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