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...Southeast Asia's largest. Around 100 bulldozers and 800 people work on the massive site where 90 per cent of the city's waste ends up. Around 6,000 informal workers - sometimes accompanied by their ch...

22 Dec 2023

...Asia? How is Alner trying to tackle it? Single-use packaging is very dominant in Indonesia, in other countries in Southeast Asia such as the Philippines, as well as in South Asia. Most of our daily pr...

17 May 2023

Climate projects, MSMEs, women and farmers benefit from record year for IFC in Asia-Pacific region

...plastic waste, critical issues in a region home to many countries that are most vulnerable to climate change and key contributors of plastic waste. Projects ranged from investments in Mongolia&rs...

5 Sep 2023

...Southeast Asian countries, such as lax enforcement and a paucity of mining safeguards, exacerbate these environmental problems and continue to sully Southeast Asia's poor track record of human rights ...

9 May 2023

...plastic, does not mean they don't harm people and planet," said Rosa Pritchard, plastics lawyer at ClientEarth. In response, Nestlé said it was cutting use of plastic packaging, Danone said it was con...

19 Dec 2023

Children fetching water in Maharashtra, India

...Southeast Asia alone, according to estimates by the Asian Development Bank. This is not only a challenge for our region but for the planet.” Access to clean water supply and sanitation services remain...

20 Mar 2024

Eco-Business Sustainability Leadership A-List winners and CDG-EB Impact Sustainability Education Grant unveiled

...Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as South Asia and Australia. The nominees were assessed by two distinguished panel of judges representing leader...

2 Feb 2024

...Southeast Asia’s largest country and estimated as the world’s third-largest plastic polluter. There, too, rapid economic growth and increased production of single-use plastics by global brands has ove...

9 Dec 2022

A beach in Bali, Indonesia, polluted with marine plastic.

...plastic pollution problem. According to the World Bank, half of the top 10 marine plastic waste producing countries are located in Southeast Asia. The global treaty she referenced is the landmark res...

25 Jan 2023

...Asia must stay a step ahead of the decisions being issued in Brussels. When it comes to following the European Union (EU), investors in Asia seem to channel Henry Kissinger’s apocryphal quote that Eur...

9 Oct 2023

...plastic waste troubles, Southeast Asia also has a severe problem with food and organic waste. In fact, South and Southeast Asia together are responsible for 25 per cent of the entire planet's food was...

10 May 2023

...Southeast Asia are in waste management, renewable energy and green transportation. Image: Milieu Insight Anxious about the planet Most Southeast Asian consumers became green investors due to concerns...

19 Apr 2023

The spike in plastics waste during the pandemic is worsening marine pollution.

...Southeast Asian countries have become dumping grounds of the world’s plastic waste. As highlighted by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives in 2019, waste across Southeast Asia is causing c...

23 Sep 2022

Collecting and sorting waste in Chiang Mai, Thailand

...plastic, Coca-Cola and Unilever, have said that they're not convinced by plastic credits as a solution to the marine litter crisis. Similar in principle to carbon credits, plastic credits allow pollut...

28 Nov 2022

Annerieke Douma_The Circulate Initiative

...Southeast Asia, informal waste workers are at the frontline of plastic waste recovery and recycling,” said Douma. “Their experience – shaped by marginalisation, a lack of social safety nets, vulnerabi...

13 Feb 2023

Plastic trash covers a beach in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.

...plastics outstripped recycled plastic production by 15 times, according to Plastic Waste Makers Index, a report by Minderoo Foundation. In that time frame, 6 million tonnes of single-use plastics was ...

7 Feb 2023

...plastic pollution after China, leaking more than 600,000 tonnes of plastic into the sea each year – a rate that sharply increased during the Covid-19 pandemic as plastic-packaged online deliveries soa...

4 Jan 2023

Plastic Waste to Value Southeast Asia challenge announces five innovators

...Plastic Action Partnership, UpLink by the World Economic Forum, and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, have recently launched the Plastic Waste to Value Southeast Asia Challenge to tackle plastic wast...

12 Aug 2022

...Southeast Asia to the Middle East, and they shared different perspectives on the sustainability challenges of where they come from, which fascinated me. I got good grades at school – straight As. But ...

16 Oct 2024

...plastic alternatives including reuse and refill models and plastic material alternatives. Currently, 76 startups are involved, with the companies hailing from South and Southeast Asia countries, inclu...

18 Nov 2022

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