Environment news in Bandar Utama Selangor

1. MSU hosts two-day SDG-ESG symposium at Shah Alam campus

   14 hours ago Harian Metro Performing Arts Theatre, MSU, Shah Alam, Selangor 9.7 km

   Management and Science University (MSU) and Times Higher Education held the two-day SDG-ESG Synergy Symposium from 3 September at the Performing Arts Theatre on MSU's main campus in Shah Alam. The event brought together leaders and experts from higher education, government and industry to discuss the role of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ESG principles. MSU also reported 950 documented SDG initiatives between 2022 and 2025.

2. Universiti Malaya researchers turn prawn shells into biodegradable plastic film

   2 days ago BusinessToday Malaysia Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 5.3 km

   Researchers at Universiti Malaya's Faculty of Engineering have converted discarded prawn shells into chitosan, a natural biopolymer, and used it with starch to produce biodegradable plastic films. In soil burial tests, the films began visibly degrading after three weeks and had substantially broken down by the fourth. The work links two Malaysian waste problems - food waste and plastic waste - but the material is still far from commercial use.