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News / Waste

Singapore postpones packaging reduction deadline for companies in light of Covid-19 disruption

...landfill site is expected to be completely full by 2035 or earlier—experts say that the regulations will be hard to implement. After EPR rules are introduced, companies would reuse post-consumer conte...

21 May 2020

Singapore postpones packaging reduction deadline for companies in light of Covid-19 disruption

A blue recycling bin in the district of Tiong Bahru, Singapore. The city-state's recycling rate has been stagnant since 2012. Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

Singapore’s zero-waste plan aims to raise domestic recycling rate from 22 to 30 per cent by 2030

The Singapore government has launched an eagerly awaited masterplan to tackle the city-state’s acute waste problem, with new targets set to reduce the burden on the island’s only landfill site and cre...

30 Aug 2019

Singapore’s zero-waste plan aims to raise domestic recycling rate from 22 to 30 per cent by 2030

News / Carbon & Climate

Heeding the call for a green recovery

...landfills or being incinerated as waste. Since 2015, the Dutch-headquartered multinational has set an internal carbon price of €50 per tonne of carbon dioxide-equivalent. This helps to incorporating t...

6 Oct 2020

Heeding the call for a green recovery

News / Waste

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Jeannie Kwok, hotel waste warrior

...landfill by half by 2030. “Food waste issues can be quite tricky because it’s tied to culture. In many societies, having an abundance of food is symbolic of success, for example,” she said, noting tha...

11 Feb 2020

Meet the Eco-Business A-Listers: Jeannie Kwok, hotel waste warrior

A pile of plastic collected in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia. Image: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

Opinion / Waste

The plastic pandemic

...landfills or leaking into the environment. During the Covid-19 crisis, it is essential to protect the vulnerable, ensure that health workers have the tools and support they need to do their jobs safel...

13 Jul 2020

The plastic pandemic

Opinion / Manufacturing

Logged native forests mostly end up in landfill, not in buildings and furniture

...landfill. In landfill, the wood breaks down and releases carbon back into the atmosphere. On the other hand, our evolving carbon market means Australia’s native forests are extremely valuable as long-...

23 Apr 2019

Logged native forests mostly end up in landfill, not in buildings and furniture

Opinion / Cities

Big data can help cities clean the air their citizens breathe. Here's how.

...landfills and the construction industry. Such industry collaborations are no doubt promising, but with the world prioritising a Covid-19 recovery in recent months, more needs to be done to meet climat...

3 Sep 2020

Big data can help cities clean the air their citizens breathe. Here's how.

News / Carbon & Climate

Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge cost

...landfills, which reduces climate-harming emissions and can be a clean substitute for conventional gas. Funding power The World Bank report emphasised that funding for clean cooking efforts is falling ...

28 Sep 2020

Dirty secret: Half of world lacks clean cooking, at a huge cost

News / Waste

Shanghai’s compulsory waste sorting begins

...landfill siege China has already overtaken the US to become the world’s biggest producer of waste. And like China’s other large cities, Shanghai is at risk of becoming encircled by landfill sites. In ...

8 Jul 2019

Shanghai’s compulsory waste sorting begins

Opinion / Manufacturing

Time to make fast fashion a problem for its makers

...landfill,” remarked British MP Mary Creagh in June this year, after that country’s parliament rejected a proposed garment tax on the fashion industry. “Urgent action must be taken to change the fast f...

2 Sep 2019

Time to make fast fashion a problem for its makers

News / Carbon & Climate

6 ways the pandemic changed sustainability in 2020

...landfills. The oil and gas industry plans to spend US$400 billion on infrastructure to make more new plastic, while spending less than US$2 billion to reduce plastic waste, according to a Reuters repo...

14 Dec 2020

6 ways the pandemic changed sustainability in 2020

Press Releases / Zero Waste SG

Less single-use items for NDP funpack 2019

...landfill at Pulau Semakau is estimated to be filled by 2035, ten years ahead of which it was initially planned for. Building a new landfill is not only undeniably expensive, but also resource- intensi...

21 Jun 2019

Less single-use items for NDP funpack 2019

Press Releases / ROICA by Asahi Kasei

Sarah Borghi launches the ‘Green Collection’ born from responsible values and the collaboration with smart innovators

...landfill, developed by SOLVAY and produced and distributed by FULGAR, and ROICA™ V550 by leading fiber manufacturer Asahi Kasei, a premium sustainable stretch yarn boasting the Gold Level M...

2 Nov 2020

Sarah Borghi launches the ‘Green Collection’ born from responsible values and the collaboration with smart innovators

News / Carbon & Climate

How can the fashion business make recycled garments sexy?

...landfill is a missed opportunity. “It is a cheap resource, but a very high quality resource if you know how to use it," he said. "On one hand, resources are going to the landfills, on the other hand, ...

30 Jul 2019

How can the fashion business make recycled garments sexy?

Opinion / Waste

Innovating for impact: Dealing with a mountain of medical waste

...landfill (post-treatment), can also raise concerns regarding eventual negative climate and other environmental impacts, particularly in situations where less professional and well-resourced actors do ...

15 May 2020

Innovating for impact: Dealing with a mountain of medical waste

Press Releases / Imagine H2O Asia

Rising to the region's water challenges: Meet the Imagine H2O Asia 2020 accelerator companies

...landfill treatment and industrial ZLD. Liquinex (Singapore): Compact suitcase-sized water treatment system using ceramic ultrafiltration and UV-LED disinfection for mobile deployment, primarily in di...

8 Jul 2020

Rising to the region's water challenges: Meet the Imagine H2O Asia 2020 accelerator companies

News / Waste

Less than 10% of all the plastic trash ever produced has been recycled. Is this process the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for?

...landfills and otherwise-unspoiled places where it could remain for decades, if not centuries. Yet, because it’s so much lighter than the steel and glass it has replaced in vehicles and elsewhere, plas...

22 May 2020

Less than 10% of all the plastic trash ever produced has been recycled. Is this process the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for?

News / Waste

Malaysia urged to cut down on plastic packaging for cleaner seas

...landfill, which can be washed into rivers and seas by extreme weather. Awareness campaigns to encourage Malaysians to get into the habit of separating their waste could improve recycling rates, Schuld...

18 Feb 2020

Malaysia urged to cut down on plastic packaging for cleaner seas

News / Waste

Trash for teaching: Indian students hope to set example on plastic recycling

...landfill, according to the Central Pollution Control. Mazin Mukhtar, school co-founder, said they came up with the idea this year of collecting plastic waste to turn into eco bricks to use in construc...

13 Jun 2019

Trash for teaching: Indian students hope to set example on plastic recycling

News / Waste

Singapore's new waste app provides free door collection service to bypass contaminated recycling bins

...landfill, which is expected to be full by 2035 or earlier. The plan included newly designed recycling bins with clearer labelling on what can and cannot be recycled to reduce contamination. Among the ...

10 Nov 2019

Singapore's new waste app provides free door collection service to bypass contaminated recycling bins

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