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

...landfill. The rest was landfilled. The most commonly collected items were plastic bags and diapers. Discarded fishing nets and lines and plastic drink bottles were the next most common, followed by fo...

6 Jul 2020

A recycling centre in Lang Khoai, Vietnam, where 1,500 work in the informal recycling sector. Image: CL2B

...landfills and likely more plastics entering the open environment and waterways, according to the study titled Safeguarding the Plastic Recycling Value Chain. Operational capacity of recyclers in Sout...

30 Aug 2020

A worker makes checks at the Miditech Gloves' rubber glove factory in Malaysia in 2020.

...landfill where they remain for about 100 years. That is something a Malaysian company is determined to address. Meditech Gloves is working with scientists at Britain's Cranfield University to create a...

26 Nov 2020

Sustainable paper packaging: good for people & the planet

...landfill, which are known to generate millions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas more potent that CO2. A lot will be incinerated - not good for the atmosphere either – as while some of the r...

22 Sep 2021

Environment and sustainability minister Grace Fu

...landfill by 30 per cent by 2030. The country's ambition to raise its domestic recycling rate to just 30 per cent, up from 22 per cent now, by 2030, also points to a nation at ease with a waste per per...

21 Oct 2020

...Landfills see a spike in materials around the holidays, from wrapping paper to ribbon and unwanted gifts: Canadians will send a whopping 540,000 tonnes of wrapping paper to the landfill this Christm...

17 Dec 2019

Plastic water bottles await collection for recycling in Africa.

As consumer goods companies clamour to address the reputational damage of ocean plastic pollution, credit schemes have emerged that enable firms to offset the plastic they produce and use, keep it out...

16 Feb 2021

...landfill. Amid this false dichotomy, most Singaporeans fail to recognise the human rights crisis unfolding behind the scenes. They fail to see the stark health inequalities that their consumption hab...

5 Oct 2020

...landfill at a high cost - to create environmentally friendly and odour-free electricity storage for fast charging. "We looked at durian and jackfruit because about 70 per cent of the fruit is not edib...

10 Mar 2020

...landfill by 2030. The National University of Singapore announced plans in August to reduce waste generated and plant more trees. It aims to achieve a carbon neutral campus by 2030. Universities in the...

2 Oct 2020

...landfill good for society? (Advice to corporates: stop saying sustainability is in your DNA. It's not true and no one believes you.) Sober by mid-century In a bid to highlight the absurdity of carbon ...

10 Dec 2021

...landfill to zero by 2022. Based in Singapore, Fang reports to the corporate strategy and development department. She joined Shiseido as Asia Pacific life quality centre manager in 2018 from state inve...

3 Jun 2020

...landfill at 45 global sites, and bottles made partly with recycled beach plastic. In an emailed response from P&G’s media relations office noted that the results of the shareholder vote will inclu...

28 Oct 2020

...landfill, or incinerated. One of the options is currently moot in the Philippines, where incineration is outlawed under the country's Clean Air Act. But the Philippine department of environment and n...

4 May 2020

...landfills — while the rest is burned or dumped in nature. This results in 33,000 tonnes of plastic waste entering the ocean each year. As the numbers of tourists has steadily grown (up 10 per cent in ...

20 Feb 2020

...landfill sites to effectively handle such hazardous waste,” he said. This story was published with permission from Mongabay.com.

11 Dec 2020

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

...landfill. But people don’t like landfill, because it’s not well controlled. We’re trying to do better than landfill, with mechanical recycling, energy recovery [incineration] and chemical recycling. ...

20 May 2020

...landfills. It can contaminate air and water and pose health risks for people. It contributes to the climate crisis both in the form of fossil fuel energy required to produce and handle it and in green...

9 Jul 2020

Equis Development Pte Ltd completes capital raising for Korean waste to energy platform

...landfill and waste exports. We are committed to maintaining the highest environmental standards and see a significant potential to grow the platform regionally.” Vine Enviro will also generate ...

7 Aug 2020

...landfilled, composted or turned into animal feed after the fruit is harvested. About 27.5 million tonnes of pineapples are harvested each year, and over 76 million tonnes of leaf waste is generated, a...

9 Sep 2020

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