Henry Teh Kok Kheng is the World Cleanup Day (WCD) Country Leader for Malaysia where WCD is running in more than 191 countries in the world and in excess of 20 million volunteers. SW Corp that partners with WCD every year is the corporation that is under the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) that has the authority and jurisdiction to administer and enforce the laws of solid waste management, public cleansing and its related matters.

Henry Teh was the co-founder for Malaysian Humanitarian Foundation (MHF) at http://www.mhfhuman.org since June 1996 and until July 2024. He is collaborating with Earth Day (ED) and presently putting together a consortium of like-minded strategic and complementary partners that can showcase parts of the end-to-end workings that are linked to volunteerism, cleanups, waste, waste management, sustainable global with federal and state workings and best practices: that can be the enabler and catalyst to push for zero waste zero energy, jobs and business creation in the circular economy space with forest planting and carbon offsets that are operated and managed with caringness, responsibility, integrity and governance while it can be independently audited internationally and domestically for impacts and sustainability.

Henry Teh is also working together and parallelly with XTrash that will focus on the overall eco system for sustainability with climate change (with digital inclusion) and with the youth to be empowered to drive and to share this hope locally and globally. WCD will focus more on building up of 5% of the population in Malaysia to do milestone cleanups by or before 2030 sustainably. Earth Day’s focus is to protect the planet from pollution and deforestation through environmental protection, sustainability and awareness.

We are trying to understand how we can also showcase on black carbon (soot), red carbon, green carbon and blue carbon over time.

It is important to try our level best to manage concerns related to community and green washing (including free from conflict of interest workings & with check and balance structures and standard operating procedures (SOPs)) while we are taking on Community Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives. We need to work hard to constantly find more and better ways to manage this so that we can help to provide a friendly, caring and grounded way to showcase that doing things well and good has a bigger and greater good, purpose and impact for the earth.