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How can the world use less plastic and reduce pollution?

Plastics are a major part of modern life - from construction materials to food packaging - yet concerns are growing globally as their environmental impacts become increasingly evident. Producing plas...

1 Mar 2023

How can the world use less plastic and reduce pollution?

A beach strewn with plastic waste in Indonesia.

News / Water

Peak plastic? Even bans, taxes and polluter-pays laws will not stop runaway consumption

...landfilled or leaked into the environment, the majority of which ends up in countries in the Global South with poor waste infrastructure. A global tax on virgin plastic resin, which would address the ...

27 Feb 2023

Peak plastic? Even bans, taxes and polluter-pays laws will not stop runaway consumption

News / Energy

Perfectly good solar panels are being dumped, and how New South Wales is putting an end to it

...landfill, often well before they’ve reached their 30-year functional lifespan. Sustainable business management consultancy BlueTribe has snagged more than $215,000 from the NSW government to pilot a s...

29 Sep 2021

Perfectly good solar panels are being dumped, and how New South Wales is putting an end to it

News / Waste

Can the tide of plastic pollution be turned by a new global pact?

...landfills, dumps or the environment, according to the UN agency (UNEP). In a bid to tackle the growing plastic waste crisis, government officials from around the world agreed on Wednesday to start tal...

4 Mar 2022

Can the tide of plastic pollution be turned by a new global pact?

News / Manufacturing

Innovation key to climate-conscious, accessible healthcare: Philips sustainability chief

...landfill. We try to address that with circular models so not “make, use and waste”, but “reuse”, and especially with the large screen medical equipment. Indubitably, this has many implications for how...

18 Jan 2023

Innovation key to climate-conscious, accessible healthcare: Philips sustainability chief

Covid-19 medical workers vaccine Philippines

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Southeast Asia’s healthcare sustainability struggle lingers post-Covid

...landfilled. More were dredged up in rivers and oceans. As nations counted losses and devised plans to beef up health systems, many also pledged to redouble efforts to make the profession more sustaina...

8 Sep 2023

Southeast Asia’s healthcare sustainability struggle lingers post-Covid

News / Cities

Nepal has ‘world’s highest’ lung disease death rate

Nepal has the world’s highest age-adjusted death rate for chronic lung disease at 182.5 per 100,000 population, with more than 3,000 years lost to ill health or disability from the condition, accordin...

26 Aug 2022

Nepal has ‘world’s highest’ lung disease death rate

Press Releases / Tortoise The Label

Eco-conscious brand incentivises Singaporeans towards sustainability with affordable basics

...landfills. This system keeps the clothes affordable, and the experience of recycling hassle-free for customers. The concept for the brand was born from the question: “What if there was a more s...

8 Dec 2021

Eco-conscious brand incentivises Singaporeans towards sustainability with affordable basics

Opinion / Waste

The Global Plastics Treaty: We need speed, standards, scale and teeth

...landfill, incinerated or leaking into the environment. The report also identifies four key areas in urgent need of attention: markets for recycled plastics, technological innovation in plastics, domes...

1 Jun 2022

The Global Plastics Treaty: We need speed, standards, scale and teeth

Quarantine hotel waste generated at the Ramada Hong Kong Grand View.

News / Waste

Hong Kong grapples with growing mountains of quarantine hotel plastic waste

...landfill –only 11 per cent of Hong Kong’s plastic waste was recycled in 2020. Some quarantine hotels are trying to go plastic free. Facilities run by Dorsett Hospitality International and Ovolo Hotel...

24 Feb 2022

Hong Kong grapples with growing mountains of quarantine hotel plastic waste

Podcasts / Manufacturing

Sustainable packaging is here — but who will pay for it?

...landfill or is incinerated. About 40 per cent of the world's plastic pollution comes from packaging food, drinks and other consumables. Plastic is usually the cheapest packaging option, and over-use, ...

21 Mar 2022

Sustainable packaging is here — but who will pay for it?

Opinion / Waste

South Asian leadership is needed for an equitable plastics treaty

On 29 May 2023, India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka will meet with 160 other countries in Paris, France, with the aim of developing text for a ‘legally binding instrument’ to en...

19 May 2023

South Asian leadership is needed for an equitable plastics treaty

News / Corporate Responsibility

Data driven strategies for avoiding greenwashing

...landfill. Whatever cannot be used should be disposed of responsibly. Organisations may even be able to create new revenue streams through the resale of different products or services, or offer product...

16 Feb 2023

Data driven strategies for avoiding greenwashing

Opinion / Waste

Governing an ocean of plastics

...landfill taxes, deposit-refund, and pay-as-you-throw usage pricing. A treaty also should offer support for coastal communities in their efforts to manage plastic waste. New policies could pilot fundin...

3 Mar 2022

Governing an ocean of plastics

Press Releases / Diversey, Inc

Systematic Holdings Is the first commercial laundry globally to join Linens For Life™ Program

...landfills or disposing of them in some other environmentally harmful way, participating hotels work with Diversey to distribute their end-of-life linens to people who live in slums, trash mountains or...

5 Nov 2021

Systematic Holdings Is the first commercial laundry globally to join Linens For Life™ Program

Heavily packaged fruit in a supermarket in Singapore.

Opinion / Waste

A bad wrap? Using packaging well to reduce food waste

Sown, watered, raised, harvested – and dumped. Food wasted in the agricultural powerhouse of Indonesia over the last two decades could have fed up to 125 million people. In recognition of the growing...

16 Jun 2022

A bad wrap? Using packaging well to reduce food waste

News / Waste

Chemical recycling: Will the ‘green’ plastics solution make more pollution?

...landfills. However, chemical plastic-to-plastic recycling projects have been besieged by problems as they attempt to scale-up from promising laboratory studies into commercially viable enterprises, an...

24 Mar 2022

Chemical recycling: Will the ‘green’ plastics solution make more pollution?

News / Waste

'When waste workers are satisfied, there is no resistance': CDC Group's Shivangi Sultania on fair treatment for India's 'safaai sathis'

...landfill or the ocean. Sultania has also led efforts to raise awareness about at-source segregation of waste and circularity. Her team is reaching out to schools to educate students about waste manag...

28 Mar 2023

'When waste workers are satisfied, there is no resistance': CDC Group's Shivangi Sultania on fair treatment for India's 'safaai sathis'

News / Water

Fisherfolk evicted from Phnom Penh’s lakes by Cambodia’s crony industrialists

...landfills to turn a lake in the Phnom Penh area into commercial land, and the traumas caused by displacement and the added dangers of flooding caused by unbalanced development.” ‘They are planning to ...

12 Oct 2022

Fisherfolk evicted from Phnom Penh’s lakes by Cambodia’s crony industrialists

News / Carbon & Climate

How can a world population of 8 billion be more sustainable?

...landfills every week. To make the industry greener, analysts say more must be done to curb production and keep clothes in use for longer - such as through repair, renting and repeated use. End dama...

10 Nov 2022

How can a world population of 8 billion be more sustainable?

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