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...Southeast Asia campaigner Abigail Aguilar pointed to Myanmar's lack of a legal framework against plastic waste imports for the jump. The top exporters of plastic waste to Southeast Asia in 2018 were ...

11 Mar 2020

...Southeast Asia's most ambitious sustainability target — to be a zero-emissions firm by 2030. To achieve this target, the company, formed from a merger of ride-hailing firm Gojek and e-commerce company...

28 Jul 2022

...Southeast Asia has weak charging infrastructure, even in more advanced countries like Singapore. So how realistic is Gojek's 2030 fully electric aim, and how confident can you be in hitting these targ...

14 May 2021

...Southeast Asia. Plan to progress Esther An, chief sustainability officer for real estate firm City Developments Limited (CDL), said that setting targets, adopting standards and measuring progress is...

13 Apr 2021

Circulate Capital announces Inaugural investments that will help South and Southeast Asian SMEs to combat ocean plastic and weather the Covid-19 crisis

...plastic. We focus on the prevention of mismanaged plastic waste in countries located in South Asia and Southeast Asia, regions that contribute disproportionately to ocean plastic pollution primarily b...

28 Apr 2020

...plastic waste problem. In 2019, the country generated 930,000 tonnes of plastic waste, of which only 4 per cent was recycled. For three years, he researched solutions on what he calls the “real proble...

12 Jan 2021

The winner of The Liveability Challenge 2020: cell-based milk producer TurtleTree Labs. Image: Eco-Business

...Southeast Asia's cities face, organised by Eco-Business. The innovative lab-grown milk concept, developed by Singapore-based biotechnology company TurtleTree Labs, emerged the winner in a field of six...

8 Jul 2020

A Muuse reusable cup in use in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic. A rent and return trial has been running in the business cluster, Taikoo Place. Image: Muuse

...Southeast Asia's cities cleaner, greener places to live and work, backed by Temasek Foundation. The launch of The Liveability Challenge 2021 will take place on 15 January.

11 Jan 2021

Hospitality workers lift a sack of collected marine debris from a beach in eastern Bintan, Indonesia.

...plastic will contribute to the plastic offsetting schemes Seven Clean Seas has had to put on hold since Covid-19 movement restrictions were introduced. Corporates pay the firm to offset the plastic th...

6 Jul 2020

Global call for applicants to the plastics data challenge by The Incubation Network

...Asia's plastics value chains as well as support and enhance the market for plastic waste and recycling innovations with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. Applications are currently open and will c...

21 Jan 2020

...Southeast Asia a month for services ranging from transport, food delivery, and payment services. Electrifying its fleet of vehicles, which are mainly two-wheelers, will be a key part of the decarbonis...

26 Feb 2021

...Southeast Asia has been no different. Between 2010 and 2018, the region’s energy demand rose by almost 22 per cent—an increase almost double the global average. With energy efficiency one of the most ...

13 Oct 2020

YSI SEA founders Sai Surya Yarlagadda (left) and Irsyad Ramthan

...Southeast Asia (YSI SEA) in 2017, when they were engineering students at National University of Singapore (NUS). YSI SEA is a social enterprise born out of an idea that started in Oslo, Norway to enc...

20 Jul 2020

...Southeast Asia, between 2016 and 2018 the ten countries within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) saw plastic waste imports grow a staggering 171% – from 836,529 tonnes to 2,265,962 to...

27 Jan 2020

...Southeast Asia, regions that are plagued by the plundering of their natural resources, particularly when it comes to forests. “ While the boreal forest may seem far away to most of us…it is the most...

28 Oct 2020

A Pepsi model lies amid other debris. Could plastic-using brands save the circular economy? Image: Eco-Business

...plastic]." The investments will help to build circular plastic value chains that prevent plastic pollution at a time when single-use plastic use is surging as packaged goods deliveries to locked-down ...

2 May 2020

...plastics, and that means a surge in ocean plastic. But I see public outrage over plastic pollution increasing just as much as single-use plastic becomes a bigger problem—so they could balance each oth...

9 Jun 2020

...Asia, released in October 2018, which identified improving Southeast Asia's waste collection systems, rather than plastic bans or taxes, to be the most effective way to stop plastic leaking into the o...

19 Nov 2019

...Southeast Asia, which witnessed a spike of new coronavirus cases this month, some resourceful citizens have improvised and come up with less carbon-intensive safety equipment and distribution. Reusabl...

20 Apr 2020

...Southeast Asia at CREA, and one of the authors of the report. Pollutants can remain airborne for long periods of time and travel hundreds of kilometres, reaching the capital from the surrounding provi...

18 Aug 2020

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