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News / Waste

Waste colonialism is alive in Southeast Asia

...plastics treaty As Southeast Asia deals with the continued influx of imported plastic waste, a global plastics treaty still hangs in the balance. The most recent round of negotiations in Geneva in Aug...

1 Apr 2026

Waste colonialism is alive in Southeast Asia

Videos / None

EB PERSPECTIVES: Unpacking Asia's plastic pollution problem

...Asia's plastic challenges: Drivers like low collection rates (less than 50 per cent in rural Southeast Asian areas, for example) and risks such as 14.1 million tonnes annual leakage by 2050 Corporat...

25 Feb 2026

EB PERSPECTIVES: Unpacking Asia's plastic pollution problem

A recycling centre in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

News / Waste

Iran war rips through Asia’s plastics market, boosting demand for recycled resin

...plastic, there has been a significant increase in demand for recycled plastic." Virgin plastic prices have spiked since the breakout of the Iran war, increasing the competitiveness of recycled plasti...

3 Apr 2026

Iran war rips through Asia’s plastics market, boosting demand for recycled resin

A farmer putting fertiliser in a rice field in Central Vietnam

News / Transport

Prices of Asia-Pacific's fertilisers, petrochemicals set to surge on Iran war: ADB

...Asia and the Pacific, the multilateral Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned. ADB’s brief titled The 2026 Conflict in the Middle East and Macroeconomic Risks for Asia and the Pacific compared market...

30 Mar 2026

Prices of Asia-Pacific's fertilisers, petrochemicals set to surge on Iran war: ADB

News / Waste

Chile’s Julio Cordano elected chair of UN plastic pollution treaty talks

...plastics, among other things. Civil society groups have urged governments and other stakeholders in Southeast Asia not to wait for the conclusion of the plastic treaty talks to act on plastic pollutio...

9 Feb 2026

Chile’s Julio Cordano elected chair of UN plastic pollution treaty talks

Plastic waste from Severe Tropical Storm Wipha

News / Waste

Asia will be hard to unite for global plastic treaty, say regional observers

...plastics, [Asia] is a player at every juncture. [This is why] I would say Asia has to be the region that should be the most concerned about this [plastics] issue," he added. China and Japan are some ...

29 Jul 2025

Asia will be hard to unite for global plastic treaty, say regional observers

News / Waste

Asean needs to spend US$178 billion to fix plastic leakage by 2050: OECD

...plastic waste will be felt the most in lower-middle income countries in Southeast Asia. Image: OECD The US$178 billion estimate comes from plastic waste collection costs, waste sorting, and waste tre...

6 Aug 2025

Asean needs to spend US$178 billion to fix plastic leakage by 2050: OECD

Press Releases / Skechers Sundown Festival

Sundown Festival launches Southeast Asia’s first music climate action pledge in partnership with Bye Bye Plastic Foundation

...Southeast Asia, in partnership with the Bye Bye Plastic Foundation and its global #PlasticFreeParty campaign. This pledge calls on the live music industry—venues, festivals, artists, promoters,...

7 Jul 2025

Sundown Festival launches Southeast Asia’s first music climate action pledge in partnership with Bye Bye Plastic Foundation

A beach in Balikpapan, Indonesia's "oil city", is covered in plastic trash.

Podcasts / Waste

Southeast Asia has too much to lose – we need an ambitious plastics treaty: Singapore campaigner Terese Teoh

...Southeast Asian countries on plastic production caps? The stance is currently not very clear across the different Southeast Asian countries. There is no explicit support for plastic production caps a...

12 Aug 2025

Southeast Asia has too much to lose – we need an ambitious plastics treaty: Singapore campaigner Terese Teoh

A sweet sarghom plantation in Kijang, Bintan, Indonesia.

News / Energy

Singapore company signs deals with Indonesian firms to scale biofuel production

...Southeast Asia for almost 30 years, most recently in fuel procurement for the super yachts industry. PT BPE is partly backed by fuel distribution company Parama Energi and Capitol Group, a Jakarta-bas...

10 Apr 2026

Singapore company signs deals with Indonesian firms to scale biofuel production

News / Policy & Finance

Taiwan unveils draft circular economy roadmap, eyes deeper collaboration with Southeast Asia

...Asia,” said the island’s environment minister Chi-Ming Peng at Asia Pacific Circular Economy Roundtable & Hotspot (APCER) on 22 October, where the draft roadmap, formally titled the 2050 Taiwan Ci...

19 Nov 2025

Taiwan unveils draft circular economy roadmap, eyes deeper collaboration with Southeast Asia

News / Waste

'Plastic holidays on mystic island’: Siquijor's journey to be the Philippines’ first zero waste destination

...plastic holiday.” On this day, shopkeepers are not allowed to sell or use any type of plastic bag. By 2019, the “plastic holiday” was expanded to three days a week – Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The...

1 Oct 2025

'Plastic holidays on mystic island’: Siquijor's journey to be the Philippines’ first zero waste destination

used laptops in a warehouse in Singapore

News / Waste

Why reuse – not recycling – should be Southeast Asia’s priority in the struggle against mounting e-waste

...Southeast Asia, a region that has become both a major producer and recipient of the world’s discarded technology. Between 2023 and 2025, the regional bloc received over 10,000 containers of discarded ...

19 Nov 2025

Why reuse – not recycling – should be Southeast Asia’s priority in the struggle against mounting e-waste

Press Releases / SM Supermalls

SM coastal cleanups go beyond trash, teach communities to care

...Southeast Asia’s largest mall developers and operators, with 89 malls in the Philippines and 9 in China, SM Supermalls continues to evolve its spaces, experiences, and partnerships, building des...

13 Apr 2026

SM coastal cleanups go beyond trash, teach communities to care

News / Carbon & Climate

‘Climate whiplash’: Asia’s worst extreme weather events of 2025

...Plastic rain in Jakarta, Indonesia When it rains in Jakarta, it now rains plastic. A study released in October by Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) found 15 microplastic parti...

10 Nov 2025

‘Climate whiplash’: Asia’s worst extreme weather events of 2025

Louis Ng has joined National University of Singapore

News / Cities

ACRES founder and former PAP MP Louis Ng joins National University of Singapore

...Southeast Asia to devise sustainability solutions. “I’m glad to be back at NUS, where I graduated in 2002," Ng told Eco-Business. "It’s also where my journey as a changemaker began – I founded my non...

1 Aug 2025

ACRES founder and former PAP MP Louis Ng joins National University of Singapore

News / Waste

Plastic treaty talks in limbo: Who will finance the next round of negotiations?

...plastics treaty risk becoming a shield for polluters, not a solution to the plastics crisis." High-ambition countries are the biggest financiers Countries pushing for mandatory, global caps on plastic...

19 Aug 2025

Plastic treaty talks in limbo: Who will finance the next round of negotiations?

Trash piled high at the Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, near Jakarta.

Podcasts / Waste

We don't need a plastics treaty for nations to enact polluter-pays laws now: Doug Woodring

...plastic treaty to stop plastic pollution. What are your thoughts on what Asia needs to see out of a treaty? I would go back to EPR. We need financing. So the Asian and developing markets need infrastr...

19 Aug 2025

We don't need a plastics treaty for nations to enact polluter-pays laws now: Doug Woodring

Plastic trash litters a beach in Balikpapan, Kalimantan.

News / Waste

Southeast Asia's recycled plastic market at risk amid Trump's trade war

...plastic a more attractive alternative." He noted that about two-thirds of recycled plastic imports to the US come from South Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, which means the regional market dynamics...

11 Feb 2025

Southeast Asia's recycled plastic market at risk amid Trump's trade war

News / Waste

After Geneva, how can the world salvage a plastics deal?

...plastic crisis.” Despite the urgency for vulnerable groups, a weak treaty is worse than a delayed treaty, said Salisa Traipipitsiriwat, senior campaigner and Southeast Asia plastics project manager at...

20 Aug 2025

After Geneva, how can the world salvage a plastics deal?