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News / Waste

Singapore's new waste app provides free door collection service to bypass contaminated recycling bins

...tic, metal and clothing will be collected. But not glass. “ It is hard to imagine how the value of the material collected can offset the costs of small-scale door-to-door collection, not to mention t...

10 Nov 2019

Singapore's new waste app provides free door collection service to bypass contaminated recycling bins

News / Policy & Finance

Eden Project seeks to 'breathe new life' into former Australian mine

...the United States, and was approached by Alcoa 18 months ago to develop the Australian mine concept. Over the next two weeks they will talk to the community about the project, estimated to cost about ...

22 May 2019

Eden Project seeks to 'breathe new life' into former Australian mine

News / Green Buildings

Can laboratories get smarter when it comes to sustainability?

...that the smart solutions available today are increasingly effective at catching the slips people make. "At the end of the day, even the most sophisticated system will take time to recognise that the r...

10 Oct 2019

Can laboratories get smarter when it comes to sustainability?

News / Waste

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

...tic items in restaurants, hotels and retail stores. Critics have expressed that while imposing a strict ban on plastic might be the most effective, visible way for a government to tackle its plastic...

22 Jan 2020

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

Journalists visited the mangrove conservation on Baros village, Bantul regency, Yogyakarta. Image: Flickr

News / Carbon & Climate

Reporting on climate change: Why is it so hard for journalists in developing Asia?

...their bosses to get out in the field to investigate the impact of climate change. The same study found that consumers of news care little for reports about climate change, feeling that it is a distant...

4 Jun 2019

Reporting on climate change: Why is it so hard for journalists in developing Asia?

News / Corporate Responsibility

Saving Guimaras island from the worst oil spill in the Philippines

...two holes in each of the 10 sunken cargo containers. One hole was used to introduce water into the tank, pushing the oil out to the second hole that was connected to a shuttle container. The operation...

17 Oct 2019

Saving Guimaras island from the worst oil spill in the Philippines

News / Corporate Responsibility

If you can't beat them, join them: Can rival businesses collaborate for sustainability?

...t possible to run environmental initiatives that involve your competitors? This was the question posed to speakers at an event on waste management on Thursday. The event, Trash or Treasure: What does ...

16 Jan 2019

If you can't beat them, join them: Can rival businesses collaborate for sustainability?

News / Lifestyle

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

...ting out that the t-shirt relies on passive circulation rather than a pump to filter the air, which is more effective. Kloters responded that the amount of air that can be filtered naturally by the t-...

18 Apr 2018

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

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What is Greta Thunberg really achieving?

...to show that she does not subscribe to the current system, to the false hope of capitalism, to false practices that separate us from nature. She is at once allowing these to exist, and at the same tim...

27 Sep 2019

What is Greta Thunberg really achieving?

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

What we’ve learned from how sustainability and sustainable companies have weathered the Covid-19 crisis

...tainability touched that position, the way in which sustainability metrics were built into the incentive structure for those people and really demonstrated that this is not a function that is in one g...

24 Jun 2020

What we’ve learned from how sustainability and sustainable companies have weathered the Covid-19 crisis

News / Cities

‘Leave no one behind’: Unleash-ed talents make sustainability more accessible

...the LGBT community on mental health, another solution titled 123+ aims to facilitate the legalisation and acceptance of homosexuality around the world through an online portal that connects the commun...

4 Jul 2018

‘Leave no one behind’: Unleash-ed talents make sustainability more accessible

News / Policy & Finance

Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

...t in New York asking the United Nations to order its members to act swiftly on accelerating climate change, to protect future generations. The petition, brought by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg...

24 Sep 2019

Climate summit pledges fall short, as big emitters skip 'honest appraisal'

News / Waste

Global food waste could rise by a third by 2030 - study

...t in our attitudes to food waste – I think we need to get to the point where it just isn't acceptable to throw food in the bin," she said. This story was published with permission from Thomson Reuters...

23 Aug 2018

Global food waste could rise by a third by 2030 - study

News / Energy

Karachi’s green buses to be powered by dung

...the five bus rapid transit (BRT) lines that Karachi, a metropolis without adequate public transport system, will be getting in the next two years. “By then the biogas plant would also have started wor...

24 Jan 2020

Karachi’s green buses to be powered by dung

Antoine Amory driving the Whale Warrior during The MV Ocean Warrior's crossing to Hobart with journalists from The Sydney Morning Herald and ABC News

News / Water

Can hardline activists Sea Shepherd have an impact in Southeast Asia?

...tarctica to the Indian Ocean to the Gulf of Guinea, until the captain of The Thunder sank his own ship. Sea Shepherd rescued the crew. Under the constant watch of activists filming the chase, The Thun...

10 Feb 2020

Can hardline activists Sea Shepherd have an impact in Southeast Asia?

News / Waste

Dumping plastic waste in Asia found destroying crops and health

...tries that cannot deal with the waste," said Beau Baconguis, a plastics campaigner at GAIA in Manila. "So the pollution is heading south to countries that do not have that capacity," she told the Thom...

23 Apr 2019

Dumping plastic waste in Asia found destroying crops and health

The formula, here seen in pellet form, has been billed as an eco solution to degrading styrofoam waste, livestock growth, pests, baldness, bad odours, skin conditions, and a human detox treatment has been called out as green tech fraud. Image: Eco-Business

News / Food & Agriculture

‘Plastic-eating enzyme’ marketed in Southeast Asia alleged to be a scam

...the NEA required further studies to substantiate the product's claims, including more rigorous toxicity tests and proof that it was not harzardous to the environment. Use of an unregistered pest contr...

5 Feb 2020

‘Plastic-eating enzyme’ marketed in Southeast Asia alleged to be a scam

Opinion / Waste

Five ways to unlock the value of the circular economy

...t from the UN International Resources Panel (IRP) looked at three industrial sectors in the United States, China, Brazil and Germany. It found that extending the life of products through value-retenti...

16 Apr 2019

Five ways to unlock the value of the circular economy

News / Transport

Charging ahead? India's electric car revolution faces bumps

...the streets now but they are battery operated and have very little speed, so it is of no use to us," Mitra said. "Also, they need six hours to charge the battery at home and with that they can only mo...

3 Sep 2019

Charging ahead? India's electric car revolution faces bumps

A PET bottle being recycled at a recycling plant. Image: EVRYTHNG

News / Waste

Could a digital barcode on consumer products enable the circular economy?

...te that has not been separated arrives at recycling plants and recyclers struggle to sort out what they can use from what they can’t. But what if there was a system that made it easy to distinguish re...

6 Mar 2019

Could a digital barcode on consumer products enable the circular economy?

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