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Mountain of e-waste somewhere in the world

News / Waste

Singtel and SingPost join Singapore’s fight against e-waste

...landfill and pollutes the environment. “ This should not encourage people to change their devices more frequently, and we should always ask ourselves if we really need a new device before buying it E...

8 Jun 2017

Singtel and SingPost join Singapore’s fight against e-waste

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Canada takes the lead on methane emissions

...landfills and wastewater treatment plants. With new methane-measurement practices, countries, cities, and companies could address sources of methane that are easily controlled, laying the groundwork f...

10 May 2018

Canada takes the lead on methane emissions

A collector sifts through plastic waste in Indonesia

Opinion / Manufacturing

Seaweed, Indonesia's answer to the global plastic crisis

...landfills or the ocean. Bioplastics offer an alternative. The bioplastics are commonly made from plants or bacteria and are more environmentally friendly as well as sustainable. Strong demand for biop...

8 Jun 2018

Seaweed, Indonesia's answer to the global plastic crisis

News / Waste

Bye-bye, diapers. Hello, ‘Elimination Communication’

Jeffrey Bender and his wife, Rosemary She, already felt ashamed about sending two children’s worth of disposable diapers to landfills. They didn’t want to do it with their third. But, cloth diapers we...

21 Jul 2017

Bye-bye, diapers. Hello, ‘Elimination Communication’

News / Waste

Rising tide of innovation at Davos to keep plastic out of the sea

...landfills and even our own bodies," Schmidt said. Consumer brands such as Evian, Mars, PepsiCo, Unilever and Walmart, as well as some governments, are taking steps to tackle the problem of plastic oce...

25 Jan 2018

Rising tide of innovation at Davos to keep plastic out of the sea

Opinion / Waste

Here’s a solution for the global plastic and energy crises

...landfills, while also reducing the methane created in landfills along the way (which is 23 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide). Where possible, waste resources should always be ...

19 Oct 2017

Here’s a solution for the global plastic and energy crises

Presliced vegetables in plastic wrapping on supermarket shelves

Opinion / Lifestyle

Plastic packaging is often pollution for profit

...landfill. Or consider bottled water. The logical approach here is to reuse thicker bottles 100 times or more, but this may require a deposit scheme, collection and return, wash and refill—all of which...

26 Apr 2018

Plastic packaging is often pollution for profit

News / Waste

New waste policies leave informal traders struggling

...landfill sitesencircling China’s cities. In 2017 it launched an extended producer responsibility system that included a requirement for manufacturers to increase the proportion of recycled material in...

10 Aug 2018

New waste policies leave informal traders struggling

News / Waste

Coral reefs face infection risk from plastic

...landfills. Somewhere between 4.8 million and 12.7 million metric tons of plastic waste gets into the oceans in a single year. Rich resource Coral reefs are among the richest habitats on the planet: a ...

30 Jan 2018

Coral reefs face infection risk from plastic

Opinion / Cities

A data drought hampers cities from acting on climate change

...landfill where the city's waste is buried, the rest of the municipalities do not have access or find it difficult to obtain the same information." Because of this, decision-makers must model some of t...

16 Apr 2018

A data drought hampers cities from acting on climate change

Malaysians produce 37,000 tonnes of garbage every day, and waste 15,000 tonnes of food every daily. Image Campusplus

News / Waste

Malaysia's zero waste ambition

...landfill sites, he says. At present, Malaysians throw away around 37,000 tonnes of garbage a day, the vast majority of which end up in landfill. The country is also the world's third largest waster of...

5 May 2017

Malaysia's zero waste ambition

Opinion / Waste

Getting rid of plastic bags: a windfall for supermarkets but it won't do much for the environment

...landfill. In 2002, Ireland applied a 15 pence (22c) charge to single-use plastic bags, claiming a 90 per cent reduction within six months (this was before the transition to the euro currency in the s...

19 Jul 2017

Getting rid of plastic bags: a windfall for supermarkets but it won't do much for the environment

News / Carbon & Climate

Amazon trees are major source of methane emissions

...landfills, the meat industry, or burning fossil fuels. The researchers argue that although they result from a natural process, these emissions may also be responding to environmental change, such as t...

20 Dec 2017

Amazon trees are major source of methane emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

Wear with care: Stella McCartney helps redesign climate-friendly fashion

...landfill sites or incinerated, and start using non-polluting materials that are designed to last and could save the industry $500 billion, it said. "The report presents a roadmap for us to create bett...

30 Nov 2017

Wear with care: Stella McCartney helps redesign climate-friendly fashion

Plastic monster for Earth Hour 2018, Singapore

News / Lifestyle

'Mindset overhaul' on plastics due as Earth Hour switches focus in Singapore

...landfill. It may reach capacity as early as 2035, a decade earlier than projected. The government agency is advocating for a reduction in all types of disposables, and pushing for the use of reusable ...

21 Mar 2018

'Mindset overhaul' on plastics due as Earth Hour switches focus in Singapore

News / Waste

France's war on waste makes it most food sustainable country

...landfills. The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States. "What is really important is the vision and importance of (food...

12 Dec 2017

France's war on waste makes it most food sustainable country

A model wears a dress designed and produced with zero waste

Opinion / Manufacturing

For a true war on waste, the fashion industry must spend more on research

The rise of fast fashion in Australia means 6000 kg of clothing is dumped in landfill every 10 minutes. The ABC’s War On Waste visualised this statistic by piling a giant mound of clothing waste in t...

16 Aug 2017

For a true war on waste, the fashion industry must spend more on research

News / Waste

Dealing with e-waste the nanotech way

...landfills, incinerated or treated with chemicals to recover valuable materials, but these are not regarded as environment-friendly processes. This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Asia & Pacifi...

20 Apr 2017

Dealing with e-waste the nanotech way

News / Waste

Landfills have a huge greenhouse gas problem. Here’s what we can do about it.

...landfills released an estimated 148 million metric tons (163 million tons) of CO2 equivalent to the atmosphere in 2014 alone — a figure that includes both municipal waste landfills and industrial land...

26 Oct 2016

Landfills have a huge greenhouse gas problem. Here’s what we can do about it.