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...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

...plastics have. [Plastic] packaging protects against contamination, especially in Southeast Asian rural areas where there aren’t even any household storage [options] like refrigerators,” said Edwin Sea...

11 Feb 2020

...Southeast Asia’s cities cleaner, greener places to live and work, backed by Temasek Foundation. Applications to join The Liveability Challenge 2021 are open until 15 April 2021.

28 Jan 2021

Sunrise in Bangkok, one of Southeast Asia's most climate-vulnerable cities.

...Southeast Asia's sprawling cities need to tackle. Five of the top six biggest plastic polluting nations are in Southeast Asia, and the regional bloc has a responsibility to find ways to reduce its imp...

15 Jan 2020

A beach clean up in Indonesia. Companies pay to have beaches cleaned to offset the plastic they cannot eliminate from their operations. Image: Seven Clean Seas

...plastic a company cannot eliminate by removing an equivalent amount of plastic trash from beaches and waterways around Southeast Asia. Seven Clean Seas has removed an estimated 54,000 kg of plastic fr...

13 Mar 2020

Right People Renewable Energy team in Indonesia.

...Southeast Asia. Not all of his ventures have born fruit yet, and the firm is not profitable. But the reward comes from building something with, and for, the young people on his team. If a project does...

8 Feb 2021

Viva recycled plastic water bottle from Coca-Cola

...plastic solutions group Ocean Recovery Alliance, on a panel on solutions to the plastics crisis in Southeast Asia. The answer would appear to be yes, they are. “ Asian consumers regard clear plastic...

13 Nov 2019

Martyn Tickner, Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Image: supplied

...Plastic Waste allow plastic producers to continue to use the same or more plastic that they are already, and avoid any reduction. Our mission is not to defend plastic and convince everyone that plasti...

20 May 2020

...Southeast Asia. Last year, Australia's environment minister signed off on a timeline which will see the export of waste tyres banned by December 2021. As Australia’s looming waste tyre ban nears, dem...

18 Sep 2020

CAN GLOBAL INNOVATION COMPETITIONS HELP UNEARTH THE NEXT SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTION?

...plastic” category was a Myanmar-based company called RecyGlo, which aims to provide a sustainable recycling and waste management system for Southeast Asia that includes waste collection, waste awarene...

3 Feb 2021

...plastic products and packaging, and their eventual elimination from the market. Abigail Aguilar, regional campaign coordinator, Greenpeace Southeast Asia With plastic waste reaching worrying proporti...

8 Nov 2019

...plastic—or nearly 2 billion clear plastic bottles—and produce 16,000 metric tonnes of recycled PET resin a year. Coca-Cola, one of the world’s biggest producers of plastic waste, did not disclose the ...

24 Mar 2020

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