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The company has filed for voluntary liquidation and about 70 employees are affected globally, Eco-Business understands. Archwey launched a global head office in Singapore last July, declaring it would "rid the world of virgin plastic".
This World Indigenous Peoples Day, Eco-Business asks Indigenous youths from Asia and Latin America what the world can learn from their cultures about fighting climate change.
Share At Door Step was founded in India in 2015, and has launched in Singapore in response to high demand for the service, which arranges for pre-loved items to be picked up from people's doorsteps and shuttled to charities.
Trying to collect and recycle the palm-sized packets has not worked for Indonesia, said the co-founder and director of Alner. The start-up wants to collaborate with large corporations such as Unilever to push for a “reuse-and-refill” model.
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In Indonesia and in other Southeast Asian nations, multilayer sachets are at the core of the plastic crisis. If companies such as Unilever and Procter & Gambles are serious about being part of the solution to the plastics crisis that they has helped create, they must commit to banning sachets – a desired outcome of the The Global Plastics Treaty.
New research into selected geographical regions across Vietnam, for example, finds that the majority of plastic waste is being recycled by informal workers in craft villages. These waste pickers need to be given a voice.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Strategic intervention is needed to reshape global energy markets
The world continues to require fossil fuels for years to come, but we cannot rely on the shareholders of oil and gas companies to lead the energy transition. Reforms of global markets will be needed for the transition to really gather pace.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Will Asia take the lead in fighting the world food crisis through insects?
Asia is the ideal insect farming hub, says the chief technology officer of insect farming start-up FlyFeed, which recently announced that it will build its first farm in Vietnam this year.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Asean and Japan at 50 years: Shaping a sustainable society for the future
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Recycling is key to tackling Singapore's waste problem, and everybody — including kids— can do their part for a better future.
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.
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.
Welcoming 3,800 people this year, the carbon neutral, zero waste festival has grown six-fold since its first edition in 2015.
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In this new podcast series 'Climate Tech in Asia', Eco-Business speaks to Gogoro chairman and CEO Horace Luke about the company's recent listing on the Nasdaq and its quest to electrify Asia's ubiquitous two-wheelers and make battery swapping mainstream.
Studio EB
Clarissa Morawski from non-profit Reloop tells the Eco-Business podcast why the circular economy is key to the post-Covid recovery.
Most schools only teach the science of climate change. Green School gives the skills needed to live in a warming world. Eco-Business asked Green School's Leslie Medema how to be real with children about climate change without scaring them.
2020 was a bad year plastic recycling and ocean pollution. Eco-Business asked Circulate Capital CEO Rob Kaplan how the circular economy can be rebuilt in Asia this year.
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Dole Sunshine Company
Dole Sunshine Company turns banana waste into fibres of purpose with Musa Fabric
Total Facilities (TFX)
Melbourne to host week of built environment in May 2022
Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions
Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry to champion MSMEs sustainability through new international trade show
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WWF-Singapore (PACT)
PACT Impact Report 2021
Lendlease and WWF-Singapore
Circularity in retail - Tackling the waste problem
WWF-SG
PACT Impact Report 2020
Eden Strategy Institute, LLP
Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore
