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...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

...Southeast Asian countries and large multi-national corporations make the most impact with our audience. We documented issues such as how countries in Southeast Asia were faring relative to one another...

13 Dec 2019

...Southeast Asia, and also wants to work with the food industry and plastics manufacturers to help them find solutions for waste issues, Comly said. She noted that the plastic waste crisis in Southeast ...

28 Aug 2019

...Southeast Asia to use its technology to solve ocean debris and plastic waste problems, including by improving the region’s islands’ sustainability. The IEA noted that for waste-to-energy to gain tr...

7 Nov 2019

...Plastics have become a hot topic. News stories about plastic on beaches and in the oceans abound, and policymakers have begun to respond with bans or limitations on plastic bags and single-use plastic...

15 Nov 2019

...plastics. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, which is used to make plastic water bottles, is among the most recyclable kinds of plastic, with about half of the material recycled globally. But w...

5 Dec 2019

The IKEA catalogue. Customers are starting to complain about the unsolicited mass-mailing of the paper catalogues. Image: supplied by anonymous customer

...Southeast Asia about the unsolicited mailing of the company's iconic product catalogues. Why, some are asking, is a company lauded for sustainability initiatives such as solar panels on its buildings,...

29 Feb 2020

A chief sustainability officer working during Covid-19

...Southeast Asia sustainability head, although the furniture retailer claimed this was because the sustainability function is now so embedded that it no longer needs one. While all companies are taking ...

6 Oct 2020

...plastic than the current plastic boxes. How to bounce back Experts said that more can be done, especially for smallholders, who produce about 85 per cent of the global supply of natural rubber. The Br...

16 Jul 2020

...plastic—equivalent to the weight of a credit card—every week through the air we breathe and the food and water we consume. With Southeast Asia facing water scarcity from climate change, an increase in...

30 Apr 2020

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