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Indonesia re-exporting illegal waste to other countries, report finds

...landfills or is dumped into waterways, from where it winds up in the oceans. The country is the second-biggest contributor to the plastic trash crisis in the oceans, after China, according to a 2015 s...

11 Nov 2019

Indonesia re-exporting illegal waste to other countries, report finds

News / Waste

Companies’ solutions to global plastic crisis miss the mark

...landfills or worse. According to Greenpeace, less than 10 percent of all of the plastic that’s ever been manufactured has been recycled. Other solutions, like using chemicals to break down plastic tra...

10 Oct 2019

Companies’ solutions to global plastic crisis miss the mark

Opinion / Waste

The case for building a circular economy

...landfills after their brief lives. But maybe we are looking at technology the wrong way. “Technology is simply a tool. It can have a major positive impact on the environment, but it depends on how it ...

26 Apr 2019

The case for building a circular economy

News / Waste

Singapore’s war on waste—is there a better way?

Singapore needs to invest in a network of machines and plants to upcycle its discarded food, plastics and electronics if it wants to become a zero-waste nation and extend the use of its sole landfill,...

26 Jun 2019

Singapore’s war on waste—is there a better way?

Used consumer electronics at the Virogreen e-waste recycling plant in Singapore. Image: Eco-Business

News / Waste

What will Singapore’s producer responsibility laws mean for business?

By 2025, Singapore will have extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws in place for both packaging and electronic waste (e-waste), as the tropical city-state grapples with the reality that its only ...

6 Jun 2019

What will Singapore’s producer responsibility laws mean for business?

Opinion / Waste

Why the plastic crisis matters

...landfills. While better waste-management and more recycling are both imperative, the only real, lasting solution is to produce less plastic in the first place. We must start by cutting down on the pla...

15 Nov 2019

Why the plastic crisis matters

News / Waste

What China’s waste import ban has meant for the West

...landfill.The government drew up a national waste policy, which included a target to recover 80 per cent of all waste materials. However, industry body the Waste Management Association of Australia (WM...

29 Jan 2020

What China’s waste import ban has meant for the West

Research / Zero Waste City

The case for a deposit scheme in Singapore

...landfills or the natural environment. These figures are representative of some of the challenges faced for the recovery of plastic: Low return rate: unlike other materials, used plastics historica...

12 Mar 2019

The case for a deposit scheme in Singapore

News / Waste

Bottled water giants back new global plan to cut plastic waste

...landfills and oceans each year. Baroody told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that Danone—which produces the popular mineral water brand Evian—had asked for help to meet its recycling targets. Danone's ...

12 Jun 2019

Bottled water giants back new global plan to cut plastic waste

News / Waste

Plastics are not labelled in Philippine and Indonesian hospitals—this is bad for our health and the planet

...landfill,” she said. “If plastics are labelled, hospitals can make better decisions based on the toxicity and recyclability of the medical tools they procure." Besides PVC, plastics used in medical su...

9 Jan 2019

Plastics are not labelled in Philippine and Indonesian hospitals—this is bad for our health and the planet

Women in China sort through waste plastics to be sent for recycling.

Opinion / Waste

Plastic in the oceans is not the fault of the global south

...landfill available for our discarded stuff. It may seem right to encourage recycling, but there are larger implications. Recycling will not fix the problem of ocean plastics, and pointing the finger a...

1 Feb 2019

Plastic in the oceans is not the fault of the global south

News / Waste

World waste could grow 70 per cent as cities boom, warns World Bank

...landfill, over 90 per cent is dumped openly in lower income countries that often lack adequate disposal and treatment facilities, said the report. “ If we don't take any action it could have quite si...

24 Sep 2018

World waste could grow 70 per cent as cities boom, warns World Bank

News / Waste

Why do we demolish buildings instead of deconstructing them for re-use?

...landfill—the end point for an estimated 500 million tons (454 million metric tons) of demolition waste in the US annually. Every piece of material saved meant one fewer part that needed to be manufact...

10 Oct 2018

Why do we demolish buildings instead of deconstructing them for re-use?

News / Waste

Philippines central government on solving plastic trash problem: 'We've done all we can'

...landfills by 2004, four years after the law was passed. But 14 years after that deadline, government figures are gloomy. There are only 139 operational sanitary landfills servicing just 308 of the cou...

12 Oct 2018

Philippines central government on solving plastic trash problem: 'We've done all we can'

News / Waste

Will China's sweeping ban to phase out plastic work?

Efforts to get rid of plastic, the modern world's most ubiquitous material, are riddled with challenges. However, the world’s largest producer of plastic might just be on its way to eliminating plasti...

22 Jan 2020

Will China's sweeping ban to phase out plastic work?

Opinion / Manufacturing

By the numbers: The impacts of fast fashion

...landfills every second! The average consumer bought 60 per cent more clothes in 2014 than in 2000, but kept each garment for half as long. Gone are the days when people would buy a shirt and wear it f...

16 Jan 2019

By the numbers: The impacts of fast fashion

food waste collection station in Beijing

News / Waste

Should Chinese citizens be paid to recycle?

...landfill or incinerators. The recycling rate for paper in Beijing stood at 25 per cent—meaning there was and is huge room for improvement. The NDRC and MOHURD’s 2017 plan for compulsory sorting of hou...

14 Jan 2019

Should Chinese citizens be paid to recycle?

Models at the first ever Fashion 3R Eco Fashion Show at the launch event for EcoBank 2019

News / Lifestyle

Can haute couture be zero waste?

...landfill on Pulau Semakau will run out of room by 2035, posing a waste management challenge for the island-nation. A volunteer holds up a bag for sale at the EcoBank Bazaar 2019. Some 18 tonnes of p...

5 Mar 2019

Can haute couture be zero waste?

News / Waste

Food and beverage industry: No plans to totally discard plastic

...landfills to store the waste. Is part of the goal of the F&B industry to be able to do without packaging and go for zero waste? Is it possible? The food and beverage industry cannot do without p...

11 Feb 2020

Food and beverage industry: No plans to totally discard plastic

Opinion / Cities

Droughts and flooding are two sides of the same coin. Some Asian cities are future-proofing against both

...landfill sites. Not only is the city benefitting from reduced carbon emissions and rehabilitated water bodies to ensure water security for the future, the investment is also paying off monetarily. Whi...

9 Oct 2019

Droughts and flooding are two sides of the same coin. Some Asian cities are future-proofing against both

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