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A child finds a teddy bear in a waste bank in Depok, West Java.

Opinion / Waste

Depok: The front line in Indonesia’s fight against waste

...landfills. Some laws such as the 2008 Waste Management Law, enacted more than nine years ago, have required Indonesian citizens to sort their waste to increase the 3R (recycle, reduce, reuse) system i...

12 Oct 2017

Depok: The front line in Indonesia’s fight against waste

News / Food & Agriculture

With wonky vegetables and beer, social enterprises keep food out of landfills

...landfills, supermarkets can send unsold food to charities while it is still edible, use it to feed animals or compost it to produce clean energy. But campaigners say it is cheaper for stores to turn f...

7 Nov 2017

With wonky vegetables and beer, social enterprises keep food out of landfills

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

News / Waste

China’s waste ban 'an opportunity for innovation'

...Landfill Management Corporation. She shared with the audience how Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island—where New York had been sending its trash for decades—was shut down after complaints by residen...

25 Oct 2017

China’s waste ban 'an opportunity for innovation'

Opinion / Waste

Waste management in Asia: 1 goal, 5 cities, 5 lessons

...landfills. 3. Fix landfill use Changing landfill management can arguably make the greatest impact in cities, especially those with big landfills such as Payatas in Quezon City, Philippines. We learned...

23 Jun 2017

Waste management in Asia: 1 goal, 5 cities, 5 lessons

Single-use plastic bags are stuffed into a grate door in Little India, Singapore. Only 6 per cent of the city-state's plastic waste was recycled last year. Image: Michael Coghlan/Flickr

News / Waste

Singapore’s battle with disposable plastic addiction

...landfill site, Semakau Island, is projected to be full. The root of the problem is that people “feel disconnected” from the petroleum-derived products they consume, says Khee. Just as quickly as plas...

17 Jul 2018

Singapore’s battle with disposable plastic addiction

News / Waste

How smart is Singapore at recycling e-waste?

...landfills, is incinerated or exported overseas. Veteran karung guni man, Chua Ngak Theng told Eco-Business that he can no longer recycle many electronic items because of the closure of Sungei market l...

1 Feb 2018

How smart is Singapore at recycling e-waste?

News / Waste

Sustainable fashion: Students tackle Singapore’s textile waste

...landfills but doesn’t cost too much for the customer to support.” Johnny continued that the onus does not only fall on producers. “We’re all involved in fashion waste, every single one of us.” She th...

29 Jan 2018

Sustainable fashion: Students tackle Singapore’s textile waste

News / Waste

What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?

Solar power is having its hockey stick moment. Since the early 2000s, the amount of solar panels being installed worldwide has been growing exponentially, and it’s expected to continue to do so for de...

18 Apr 2018

What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?

News / Waste

Southeast Asian plastic recyclers hope to clean up after China ban

...landfill. "Plastic China", an award-winning documentary released in late 2016, ignited further public outrage by highlighting the human and environmental costs of the under-regulated, Wild West-style ...

17 Jan 2018

Southeast Asian plastic recyclers hope to clean up after China ban

News / Lifestyle

Could this pollution-busting t-shirt repair our air?

Fashion is notorious for being one of the world's most polluting industries. But a group of designers from the global centre for fashion, Italy, say they can change that with a t-shirt that absorbs ai...

18 Apr 2018

Could this pollution-busting t-shirt repair our air?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Indonesia leans on businesses to do more about plastic waste

...landfill expenses. The study also showed that with the enforcement of EPR from 2001 to 2008, total energy reductions amounted to 3.2 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE), or approximately 2.6 trilli...

13 Nov 2018

Indonesia leans on businesses to do more about plastic waste

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

‘Successful failures’ – the problem with food banks

...landfill. It’s the ultimate win-win that big food corporations and retailers love: feed the needy and save the planet at the same time. This logic has been enshrined in Canada’s National Food Waste Re...

15 Nov 2017

‘Successful failures’ – the problem with food banks

News / Waste

What are the world's biggest plastic polluters doing about the problem?

...landfill by 2020. The Fairy Ocean Plastic Bottle is made from 10 per cent ocean plastic, and 90 per cent post-consumer recycled plastic. Image: Procter & Gamble The firm also intends to achieve ...

20 Apr 2018

What are the world's biggest plastic polluters doing about the problem?

Opinion / Manufacturing

Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment

Nearly five billion people worldwide will use a smartphone by 2020. Each device is made up of numerous precious metals and many of the key technological features wouldn’t be possible without them. So...

29 Aug 2018

Three ways making a smartphone can harm the environment

Opinion / Waste

Victoria's plastic bag ban: A good start, but we can do more

...landfill rates, compared with those of other states without container deposit schemes, shows that these schemes significantly reduce the disposal of plastic waste to landfill. These changes should be ...

27 Oct 2017

Victoria's plastic bag ban: A good start, but we can do more

Press Releases / PRO Vietnam

Nine consumer goods firms forge recycling coalition in Vietnam

...landfills or at times leaks into the open environment. The processing and recycling industry is heavily reliant on imports for feedstock. For e.g. As of 2018, based on data from Financial Ti...

28 Jun 2019

Nine consumer goods firms forge recycling coalition in Vietnam

News / Corporate Responsibility

Food packaging industry is the ‘scapegoat' of environmentalism

...landfills and oceans. In Singapore, the numbers are even more drastic—only 6 per cent is recycled. Having tried everything from bamboo shoots to beets as packaging alternatives, Deily and Bayratkar c...

18 Jul 2018

Food packaging industry is the ‘scapegoat' of environmentalism

News / Waste

World's biggest plastic polluters revealed

The world's most powerful consumer goods brand is also the biggest plastic polluter. Sugary drinks giant Coca-Cola, a company valued at US$56.4 billion, emerged as by far the most common brand in audi...

9 Oct 2018

World's biggest plastic polluters revealed

News / Corporate Responsibility

Greening to greenbacks: How four Asian firms are protecting planet for profit

...landfill, and to reduce its energy consumption while upping its use of renewables. It has been progressively reducing the amount of greenhouse gases its operations produce, employs green software to h...

27 Mar 2018

Greening to greenbacks: How four Asian firms are protecting planet for profit

News / Waste

Plastic particles now infest the Arctic

...landfills in billions of tonnes, or released into the waterways and thus into the ocean. Man-made synthetic polymers are effectively indestructible, and now represent a major source of marine pollutio...

28 Apr 2018

Plastic particles now infest the Arctic

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