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2024 will be the "year of public hygiene" for the city-state. Beyond enforcement, community clean-up organisation Stridy hopes to see infrastructure improvements such as better-placed bins and signages, as well as more efforts to recognise cleaners.
Waste
Mindset shift: How a Singapore startup convinced firms that waste plastic can be used to pave roads
Persuading firms in the construction and waste management sectors – both set in their ways – to accept Magorium's new method that could potentially close the loop for waste plastic was challenging. Why fix a process that isn't broken, many would ask, says the startup founder Oh Chu Xian.
With Jakarta's only landfill near bursting point, an Indonesian maggot farmer has a sustainable solution for the city's food waste.
Manufacturing
How to fix the carbon crisis in fast fashion
Cutting the carbon out of clothes demands myriad solutions for a deep and diverse pool of brands and suppliers.
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