Waste Management News
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Singapore startup claims breakthrough in Lithium-ion battery recyclingSingapore-based Green Li-ion says its tech can ease the looming e-waste crisis by dramatically increasing the efficiency and profitability of rechargeable battery recycling. -
Covid-hit Hilton Worldwide retrenches Asia Pacific sustainability headHilton says the 'dire' business environment has affected the company in all areas, including sustainability, but job losses would not affect the hotel chain's sustainability commitments.
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Students for sustainability… Singapore Institute of Technology’s Ho Xiang TianCo-founder of environmental advocacy group LepakInSG, and one of the speakers at Singapore's first climate rally, shares the need to think beyond individual action and focus on systemic change. -
One year after the drought: Has Chennai learned from its water crisis?Last year, Chennai's devastating drought made headlines around the globe. One year on, how is the climate-vulnerable metropolis preparing for disasters ahead?
Waste Management Opinion
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Trade barriers are slowing action on plastic pollution. Here’s how to fix that.– With cross-border frictions preventing economies of scale in tackling plastic pollution, facilitating trade can help the world reduce, re-use and recycle. This calls for better collaboration between governments and firms. -
The plastic pandemic– Plastic may have helped to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the Covid-19 crisis threatens to stall progress made in tackling plastic pollution, writes Jacob Duer of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste. -
Why we will never be able to recycle or incinerate away ocean pollution– The amount of plastic entering the ocean is projected to grow four-fold by 2050. Transformative changes, including moving away from single-use towards re-useable packaging, are needed to save our oceans, say Vincent Kneefel and John Duncan.
Waste Management Videos
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Cutting meat, food waste and plastic: The sustainability trials of Asia's biggest healthy-eating chain
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Cutting meat, food waste and plastic: The sustainability trials of Asia's biggest healthy-eating chain
– As Singapore-based salad bar chain SaladStop! marks its 10th anniversary, co-owner Katherine Desbaillets talks to Eco-Business about phasing out meat, food waste and single-use packaging, and dealing with customers who refuse to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag. -
Manila’s informal settlers face relocation to give way to massive bay clean up– The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.
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Secret cameras expose Singapore's recycling habits– Why is Singapore's domestic recycling rate so abysmal? Little cameras were hidden in the blue bins around the country to find out how people are recycling—or not.
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We are eating a credit card's worth of plastic every week– A campaign by the WWF Singapore has revealed that the average person consumes approximately 5g of plastic every week. The NGO is calling on governments and businesses around the world to forge a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution.
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