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Taiwan has one of the highest recycling rates in the world. Here's how that happened.

In a large open space overlooking central Taipei, Arthur Huang hands me a translucent, honeycomb-shaped polyethylene panel. Named Polli-Brick, this colourless module made from old plastic bottles can ...

2 Jan 2019

Taiwan has one of the highest recycling rates in the world. Here's how that happened.

News / Corporate Responsibility

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Bank of China has promised to evaluate a hydroelectric project it is helping fund in Indonesia, which activists say threatens the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, the rarest great ape spe...

13 Mar 2019

Bank of China to review funding of dam in orangutan habitat in Sumatra

food waste collection station in Beijing

News / Waste

Should Chinese citizens be paid to recycle?

On a cold winter’s morning, 60-year-old Li Min carries a bag of food waste to a station at her apartment complex in Jinsong, Beijing. She has made the trip every two days for the last six months. A wo...

14 Jan 2019

Should Chinese citizens be paid to recycle?

Trump budget cut on clean energy research

News / Energy

Trump wants to cut funding for clean energy research in half

Climate change is expected to drive demand for clean energy in the decades ahead, giving an edge to countries that invest in the manufacture and export of low-carbon technologies. Despite this, Presid...

19 Feb 2018

Trump wants to cut funding for clean energy research in half

Scavengers pick through garbage collected at a landfill site in Thailand.

Opinion / Waste

Why we're hunting for treasure—in old landfill sites

Humans are generally getting better at dealing with their mess. In the UK, for instance, 45 per cent of household waste is now recycled—yet that still means more than 12 million tonnes are buried in t...

30 Aug 2018

Why we're hunting for treasure—in old landfill sites

Press Releases / Middleton Engineering

Polymer Industries selects Middleton Engineering baling solution for its new recycling arm

Middleton Engineering has designed, supplied and manufactured a compact solution incorporating a Middleton ME80 closed-end semi-automatic baler, fitted with a bespoke slider-bed feed conveyor. Devon-...

20 Nov 2017

Polymer Industries selects Middleton Engineering baling solution for its new recycling arm

News / Waste

As Bhutan’s economy grows, so does its waste problem

Bhutan’s rapid economic development over the last few decades has been striking. According to World Bank data the GDP of the country grew from USD 135 million in 1980 to USD 2.2 billion in 2016, or si...

9 Apr 2018

As Bhutan’s economy grows, so does its waste problem

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change

The long-awaited special report on the science underpinning the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5℃ has been released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It tel...

10 Oct 2018

Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change

News / Transport

Compromise climate deal agreed for shipping

A deal to cut shipping emissions by at least 50 per cent on 2008 levels by 2050, with a strong emphasis on scaling up action to 100 per cent by mid-century, was agreed by 173 nations at the Internatio...

19 Apr 2018

Compromise climate deal agreed for shipping

Press Releases / Blue Planet Environmental Solution Pte Ltd

SBI-backed Neev Fund invests in Blue Planet to advance sustainable development in Asia

Singapore and India, 27 November 2018—Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, an end-to-end waste management solutions company, today announced that the State Bank of India (SBI)-backed Neev Fund h...

27 Nov 2018

SBI-backed Neev Fund invests in Blue Planet to advance sustainable development in Asia

News / Cities

Pig out? Asia gets a taste of climate-friendly 'pork'

It's Friday afternoon at the Venetian Macao hotel's Portofino restaurant, and on the terrace a handful of chefs in white uniforms are preparing the casino hub's famous pork chop bun for waiting guests...

26 Nov 2018

Pig out? Asia gets a taste of climate-friendly 'pork'

Podcasts / Policy & Finance

A socially just future for all

The fourth industrial revolution has changed life as we know it. Artificial intelligence technology is increasingly integrated into everything from healthcare, to e-commerce and city planning. Sensor...

5 Dec 2017

A socially just future for all

News / Policy & Finance

Green Climate Fund needs political push to solve woes - UN climate chief

The Green Climate Fund, set up to channel billions of dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change, must operate more efficiently, with greater political attention needed to make that happ...

3 Aug 2018

Green Climate Fund needs political push to solve woes - UN climate chief

Opinion / Cities

As cities go smart, vulnerable populations are pushed further to the margins

Around the world, governments are making cities “smarter” by using data and digital technology to build more efficient and livable urban environments. This makes sense: with urban populations growing ...

11 Jun 2018

As cities go smart, vulnerable populations are pushed further to the margins

News / Cities

In Malaysia, an island is drowning in its own development

Muddy carpets and soaked furniture lay in moldering piles on the streets of this state capital. It was Sunday morning, Oct. 29, 2017. Eight days earlier, torrents of water had poured off the steep slo...

27 Jul 2018

In Malaysia, an island is drowning in its own development

News / Waste

Dealing with e-waste the nanotech way

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are best recycled by pulverising them into nanosized particles to easily recover valuable constituents such as polymers, oxides and metals, say Indian researchers. The ...

20 Apr 2017

Dealing with e-waste the nanotech way

News / Food & Agriculture

Bluefin tuna: a recipe for disaster?

JD.com, China’s second largest e-commerce platform, recently found itself making a swift and humiliating climbdown when a seafood product launch went spectacularly wrong, threatening its environmental...

24 Jul 2017

Bluefin tuna: a recipe for disaster?

News / Policy & Finance

This vending machine turns plastic into gold

A solution may have been found to Malaysia's pitifully low recycling rate—a machine that turns waste into gold. Kuala Lumpur-based fintech firm HelloGold and reverse vending machine (RVM) company KLEA...

29 Mar 2018

This vending machine turns plastic into gold

News / Food & Agriculture

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

Indonesian poultry farmer Yohanes Sugihtononugroho faced ruin four years ago when plummeting prices forced him to slaughter all 100,000 of his chickens and shutter his business. He blamed large-scale ...

12 Oct 2018

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

Press Releases / Johnson Controls

First chiller optimised for ultimate performance with new low global warming potential refrigerant

New chiller delivers up to 35 per cent annual energy savings, reduced maintenance costs and the widest operating envelope in the industry. MILWAUKEE – (Jan. 3, 2018) – Johnson Controls in...

4 Jan 2018

First chiller optimised for ultimate performance with new low global warming potential refrigerant

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