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News / Food & Agriculture

In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change

...landfill, compost or animal feed. The vast majority of food waste goes to landfill. As this food breaks down over time, it generates greenhouse gases, primarily methane. (See: Why is food waste a cli...

5 Oct 2023

In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change

News / Transport

How ‘scrubbers’ became a huge ocean problem

...landfill [with the closed loop]”. Furthermore, the hybrid systems just raise the risk that “concentrated toxic sludge is dumped in the sea as soon as [a ship is] outside a controlled zone”. Many shipp...

4 Apr 2025

How ‘scrubbers’ became a huge ocean problem

Podcasts / Corporate Responsibility

ESG in retreat? In India more companies see climate action as strategic: Mahindra CSO Ankit Todi

...landfill. The fourth area that we picked up is what we call material circularity. In the manufacturing context we consume a lot of material. So how do you use less material, low emissions material, an...

8 Apr 2025

ESG in retreat? In India more companies see climate action as strategic: Mahindra CSO Ankit Todi

Singapore's Extended Producer Responsibility scheme will require all importers and manufacturers of beverage containers in Singapore to collect most of the products they sell to consumers. Industry players led by Coca-Cola have opposed the scheme, citing cost and other concerns.

News / Waste

Singapore's polluter-pays scheme faces further delay amid concern over industry stalling tactics

...landfill, Pulau Semakau, by 30 per cent per person by 2030 under its waste masterplan. The landfill is projected to be full by 2035 or earlier. Commenting on the news, Robert Kelman, Asia Pacific dire...

29 Apr 2024

Singapore's polluter-pays scheme faces further delay amid concern over industry stalling tactics

Opinion / Lifestyle

Out of step: Why sneakers and sportswear still lag on sustainability

...landfill each year. It also means these markets have a sustainability problem. Why sportswear lags on 'circular fashion' As one of the key sectors responsible for resource use and carbon emissions, th...

29 Jan 2024

Out of step: Why sneakers and sportswear still lag on sustainability

Press Releases / AUSHR HOLDINGS

OOSH’s Project Carbon Lock launches Singapore’s first free end-to-end upcycling solution for food service businesses

...landfill and incinerators, and remove 11 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. (Clockwise) From preparation, serving, collection of used cups to upcycling in Phase 1, about 10 biobased eco friendly ...

13 Feb 2024

OOSH’s Project Carbon Lock launches Singapore’s first free end-to-end upcycling solution for food service businesses

News / Manufacturing

AI supports fashion's climate goals but workers may be left behind

...landfills. While AI could help improve the apparel business' environmental track record, it also poses a threat to some of the 75 million jobs in the labour-intensive industry worldwide, already under...

7 Nov 2024

AI supports fashion's climate goals but workers may be left behind

Press Releases / Sedar Properties

Sedar Properties joins the B Corp Movement

...landfill and a recently introduced organic waste programme at one of our retail properties is sending food scraps to a commercial composting facility annually, rather than landfill,” he says. T...

5 Nov 2023

Sedar Properties joins the B Corp Movement

News / Energy

Fixing methane leaks 'easiest, fastest' way for Southeast Asia to cut planet-cooking emissions

...landfills are major methane sources, oil and gas methane emissions are "low hanging fruit" because reduction technologies are more readily available. According to EDF research, 90 per cent of oil and ...

29 Oct 2024

Fixing methane leaks 'easiest, fastest' way for Southeast Asia to cut planet-cooking emissions

Verra CEO Mandy Rambharos at GenZero Climate Summit 2025

News / Carbon & Climate

‘It’s time we drop the V in VCM’, says Verra CEO as carbon markets converge

...landfill gas and wastewater credits, but issuances also continue to be weighed down by lower-quality renewable energy credits, it said. Reductions vs removals While there was consensus among attendees...

21 May 2025

‘It’s time we drop the V in VCM’, says Verra CEO as carbon markets converge

News / Waste

Four years of waste sorting leaves China’s incinerators short of fuel

...landfill to fall. In 2021, for example, the city diverted 6.46 million tonnes of recyclable and wet waste – 54 per cent of the total. In 2018, only 21 per cent of the total was diverted. This had a si...

6 Sep 2023

Four years of waste sorting leaves China’s incinerators short of fuel

UN INC-5 Plastic Treaty talks Busan press conference

News / Waste

Global plastics treaty talks in Busan fail to reach agreement and adjourned due to ‘persisting divergence’

...landfill or burnt," he said. Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), a worldwide network of more than 1,000 grassroots groups, non-governmental organisation and individuals in over 90 co...

2 Dec 2024

Global plastics treaty talks in Busan fail to reach agreement and adjourned due to ‘persisting divergence’

News / Water

As tourism rebounds, can this scenic Philippine town’s sewage system keep up?

The Philippines’ western island province of Palawan tops tourists’ bucket lists for its picturesque main destination, El Nido. This small fishing town of 50,000 residents is located within the larger ...

17 Mar 2025

As tourism rebounds, can this scenic Philippine town’s sewage system keep up?

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News / Waste

Singapore drinks container polluters-pay initiative pushed to 2026 'at request of beverage producers'

...landfill, Pulau Semakau, by 30 per cent by 2030 to help it last beyond 2035. A five-cent plastic bag charge was introduced at supermarkets last year, which has resulted in between 50 to 80 per cent dr...

1 Aug 2024

Singapore drinks container polluters-pay initiative pushed to 2026 'at request of beverage producers'

Fabien Cousteau, grandson of celebrated oceanographer Jacque Cousteau

News / Carbon & Climate

Marine conservationist 'trepidatious' over role of blue carbon credits in protecting ocean

...landfills presented humanity with a viable alternative to ocean-floor extraction for transition minerals such as nickel, cobalt and platinum. "Why aren't we reusing the materials that we've already mi...

23 Oct 2024

Marine conservationist 'trepidatious' over role of blue carbon credits in protecting ocean

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Eco-Business premieres new impact documentary Wasted spotlighting Asia's urgent waste issue and the solutions within reach

...landfills to recycling plants, cinematic aerials to intimate portraits. With a focus on Singapore, India, South Korea and Vietnam, Wasted delves into the region’s key issues and w...

4 Dec 2023

Eco-Business premieres new impact documentary Wasted spotlighting Asia's urgent waste issue and the solutions within reach

Mahesh Nakarmi at the Eco-Business Sustainability Leadership A-List in Singapore

News / Waste

Used syringes and sanitary pads: Nepali engineer's mission to recycle all hospital waste

...landfill, the rest is recycled. The better hospital staff are at segregating the waste, the less is sent to landfill. We try to go to patients' bedsides and separate the waste at source, because if it...

5 Apr 2024

Used syringes and sanitary pads: Nepali engineer's mission to recycle all hospital waste

A trial for a reverse vending machine in Singapore

News / Waste

‘Not involved with delay’: Packaging industry responds to allegations that it blocked polluter-pays scheme in Singapore

...landfill that is expected to be full by 2035, he said: “In the meantime, Semakau landfill is running out of space. And when a new landfill has to be built for our waste, it is the taxpayers that will ...

17 Oct 2023

‘Not involved with delay’: Packaging industry responds to allegations that it blocked polluter-pays scheme in Singapore

Opinion / Policy & Finance

China’s environmental focus in South China Sea: questionable motivations

...landfill, burying roughly 4,648 acres of reefs (equivalent to more than 3,500 football fields), followed by Vietnam (1,402 acres or more than 1,000 football fields), Malaysia (83 acres or more than 62...

8 Aug 2024

China’s environmental focus in South China Sea: questionable motivations

Cynthia Handriani Wijaya, chief corporate officer, Daya Selaras Group

News / Waste

'We need people to realise that waste has value': Cynthia Wijaya on Indonesian packaging firm's circularity pivot

...landfills and reduced emissions. We want to expand the reach of the app, so we are opening another waste management warehouse later this year in Bandung, West Java. The Bandung area has been affected ...

16 Jul 2025

'We need people to realise that waste has value': Cynthia Wijaya on Indonesian packaging firm's circularity pivot