#packaging Berita
The Malaysia-based entrepreneur has struggled to secure investment to scale his bamboo tissue business The Nurturing Co beyond the Singapore market.
Rose joins Chanel from Budweiser as the luxury fashion brand pursues an ambitious target to use only renewable energy by 2025.
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.
Without being formally recognised, Vietnam's vulnerable waste workers cannot organise themselves to demand better working conditions and receive lower prices for the trash they collect. They also face increasing competition.
#packaging Opini
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.
Regulation, alongside consumer pressure, has developed a strong appetite to progress delivery of more sustainable solutions into the market, thus generating higher demand for recycled materials.
Chemicals released from bottled water packaging materials are now known as emerging pollutants and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that can cause serious health problems including cancer and developmental defects.
More Indonesians are eating fish as part of their regular diet but microplastics do make it risky. There are ways to mitigate that risk.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
What the Philippines needs to do in 2021 to deliver its climate pledges
#packaging Video
Studio EB
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.
In the first in a new video series where sustainability leaders interview each other about the toughest things about their jobs, Simon Lord of Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby Plantation went head to head with Pamela Mar of Hong Kong-based textile and apparel giant Fung Group.
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.
#packaging Podcasts
Studio EB
As a landmark treaty is thrashed out to tackle plastic pollution, the Eco-Business Podcast debates whether the world is ready to pay a premium for packaging that doesn't damage the planet.
Studio EB
Recycling efforts in the Philippines are shrinking amid the pandemic, even as the plastic waste challenge mounts. Is the country on the verge of a more devastating plastic waste crisis?
#packaging Rilis Pers
The Incubation Network
Plastic Waste to Value Southeast Asia challenge announces five innovators
#packaging Riset
WWF-Singapore (PACT)
PACT Impact Report 2021
Lendlease and WWF-Singapore
Circularity in retail - Tackling the waste problem
WWF-Singapore
The business case for a UN treaty on plastic pollution
