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News /
Waste
Chile’s Julio Cordano elected chair of UN
plastic
pollution treaty talks
...
plastic
s, among other things. Civil society groups have urged governments and other stakeholders in
Southeast
Asia
not to wait for the conclusion of the
plastic
treaty talks to act on
plastic
pollutio...
9 Feb 2026
Chile’s Julio Cordano elected chair of UN plastic pollution treaty talks
News /
Waste
Asia
will be hard to unite for global
plastic
treaty, say regional observers
...
plastic
s, [
Asia
] is a player at every juncture. [This is why] I would say
Asia
has to be the region that should be the most concerned about this [
plastic
s] issue," he added. China and Japan are some ...
29 Jul 2025
Asia will be hard to unite for global plastic treaty, say regional observers
News /
Waste
Asean needs to spend US$178 billion to fix
plastic
leakage by 2050: OECD
...
plastic
waste will be felt the most in lower-middle income countries in
Southeast
Asia
. Image: OECD The US$178 billion estimate comes from
plastic
waste collection costs, waste sorting, and waste tre...
6 Aug 2025
Asean needs to spend US$178 billion to fix plastic leakage by 2050: OECD
Press Releases /
Skechers Sundown Festival
Sundown Festival launches
Southeast
Asia
’s first music climate action pledge in partnership with Bye Bye
Plastic
Foundation
...
Southeast
Asia
, in partnership with the Bye Bye
Plastic
Foundation and its global #
Plastic
FreeParty campaign. This pledge calls on the live music industry—venues, festivals, artists, promoters,...
7 Jul 2025
Sundown Festival launches Southeast Asia’s first music climate action pledge in partnership with Bye Bye Plastic Foundation
Podcasts /
Waste
Southeast
Asia
has too much to lose – we need an ambitious
plastic
s treaty: Singapore campaigner Terese Teoh
...
Southeast
Asia
n countries on
plastic
production caps? The stance is currently not very clear across the different
Southeast
Asia
n countries. There is no explicit support for
plastic
production caps a...
12 Aug 2025
Southeast Asia has too much to lose – we need an ambitious plastics treaty: Singapore campaigner Terese Teoh
News /
Policy & Finance
Taiwan unveils draft circular economy roadmap, eyes deeper collaboration with
Southeast
Asia
...
Asia
,” said the island’s environment minister Chi-Ming Peng at
Asia
Pacific Circular Economy Roundtable & Hotspot (APCER) on 22 October, where the draft roadmap, formally titled the 2050 Taiwan Ci...
19 Nov 2025
Taiwan unveils draft circular economy roadmap, eyes deeper collaboration with Southeast Asia
News /
Waste
'
Plastic
holidays on mystic island’: Siquijor's journey to be the Philippines’ first zero waste destination
...
plastic
holiday.” On this day, shopkeepers are not allowed to sell or use any type of
plastic
bag. By 2019, the “
plastic
holiday” was expanded to three days a week – Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The...
1 Oct 2025
'Plastic holidays on mystic island’: Siquijor's journey to be the Philippines’ first zero waste destination
News /
Waste
Why reuse – not recycling – should be
Southeast
Asia
’s priority in the struggle against mounting e-waste
...
Southeast
Asia
, a region that has become both a major producer and recipient of the world’s discarded technology. Between 2023 and 2025, the regional bloc received over 10,000 containers of discarded ...
19 Nov 2025
Why reuse – not recycling – should be Southeast Asia’s priority in the struggle against mounting e-waste
News /
Carbon & Climate
‘Climate whiplash’:
Asia
’s worst extreme weather events of 2025
...
Plastic
rain in Jakarta, Indonesia When it rains in Jakarta, it now rains
plastic
. A study released in October by Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) found 15 micro
plastic
parti...
10 Nov 2025
‘Climate whiplash’: Asia’s worst extreme weather events of 2025
News /
Cities
ACRES founder and former PAP MP Louis Ng joins National University of Singapore
...
Southeast
Asia
to devise sustainability solutions. “I’m glad to be back at NUS, where I graduated in 2002," Ng told Eco-Business. "It’s also where my journey as a changemaker began – I founded my non...
1 Aug 2025
ACRES founder and former PAP MP Louis Ng joins National University of Singapore
News /
Waste
Plastic
treaty talks in limbo: Who will finance the next round of negotiations?
...
plastic
s treaty risk becoming a shield for polluters, not a solution to the
plastic
s crisis." High-ambition countries are the biggest financiers Countries pushing for mandatory, global caps on
plastic
...
19 Aug 2025
Plastic treaty talks in limbo: Who will finance the next round of negotiations?
Podcasts /
Waste
We don't need a
plastic
s treaty for nations to enact polluter-pays laws now: Doug Woodring
...
plastic
treaty to stop
plastic
pollution. What are your thoughts on what
Asia
needs to see out of a treaty? I would go back to EPR. We need financing. So the
Asia
n and developing markets need infrastr...
19 Aug 2025
We don't need a plastics treaty for nations to enact polluter-pays laws now: Doug Woodring
News /
Waste
Southeast
Asia
's recycled
plastic
market at risk amid Trump's trade war
...
plastic
a more attractive alternative." He noted that about two-thirds of recycled
plastic
imports to the US come from South Korea, Taiwan, and
Southeast
Asia
, which means the regional market dynamics...
11 Feb 2025
Southeast Asia's recycled plastic market at risk amid Trump's trade war
News /
Waste
After Geneva, how can the world salvage a
plastic
s deal?
...
plastic
crisis.” Despite the urgency for vulnerable groups, a weak treaty is worse than a delayed treaty, said Salisa Traipipitsiriwat, senior campaigner and
Southeast
Asia
plastic
s project manager at...
20 Aug 2025
After Geneva, how can the world salvage a plastics deal?
News /
Carbon & Climate
Sustainability and climate trends
Asia
businesses should watch in 2025
...
Southeast
Asia
, the expansion of data centres, face significant sustainability challenges. 5. Nuclear energy revival in
Southeast
Asia
? Some
Southeast
Asia
n nations are charging ahead with plans to s...
8 Jan 2025
Sustainability and climate trends Asia businesses should watch in 2025
News /
Corporate Responsibility
B Lab Singapore fills CEO vacancy
...
Southeast
Asia
markets. B Lab
Southeast
Asia
is a separate operation led by Thomas Ng, founder of e-learning firm Genashtim. The B Corp certification is one of the toughest sustainability certificatio...
16 Jun 2025
B Lab Singapore fills CEO vacancy
News /
Waste
Redesign, reuse, refill: Experts call for upstream solutions to be prioritised to end
plastic
pollution
...
plastic
pollution in
Asia
and the Pacific. According to OECD’s Global
Plastic
s Outlook, 22 per cent of
plastic
waste evades waste management systems and is destined to end up in uncontrolled dumpsite...
24 Feb 2025
Redesign, reuse, refill: Experts call for upstream solutions to be prioritised to end plastic pollution
News /
Waste
Bangladesh turns to areca leaves, rice bran to ditch single-use
plastic
tableware
...
plastic
tableware has become the go-to option at these occasions. However, for the last couple of years, plates made from areca palm (Areca catechu) leaves have been gradually replacing
plastic
. As pe...
2 Jun 2025
Bangladesh turns to areca leaves, rice bran to ditch single-use plastic tableware
Research /
Eco-Business, supported by Tomra
Malaysia extended producer responsibility roundtable series: Enabling a circular economy via EPR
...
Southeast
Asia
’s waste management efforts, particularly with the potential introduction of a Deposit Return System (DRS) and in leveraging its existing recycling infrastructure.
11 Mar 2025
Malaysia extended producer responsibility roundtable series: Enabling a circular economy via EPR
News /
Carbon & Climate
Rekindling our sacred ties with the land is key to upholding environmental rights in Asean: Max Han Kai Ding
...
Southeast
Asia
ns,” he said. Transboundary haze, caused by slash-and-burn practices in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos has been a recurring environmental and public health crisis in
Southeast
As...
12 Jun 2025
Rekindling our sacred ties with the land is key to upholding environmental rights in Asean: Max Han Kai Ding
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News /
Green Buildings
Singapore can sharply cut construction emissions by reusing existing buildings, study finds
Renovating could cut building emissions by up to 70 per cent, but demolition and reconstruction remains the default …
Singapore can sharply cut construction emissions by reusing existing buildings, study finds
News /
Lifestyle
Gen Z Singaporeans talk green but baby boomers are more likely to act: study
High awareness among young Singaporeans fails to translate into everyday green habits, with cost a barrier. The generation …
Gen Z Singaporeans talk green but baby boomers are more likely to act: study
Opinion /
Corporate Responsibility
Companies should be held accountable for the safety of wildlife in their concessions
A critical endangered Sumatran elephant found with its tusks and head removed in a pulpwood plantation in Riau, …
Companies should be held accountable for the safety of wildlife in their concessions
News /
Corporate Responsibility
Santos wins landmark greenwashing case in Australia in major test of corporate net zero claims
Court dismissal raises questions about how far companies can stretch climate claims without breaching the law in Australia, …
Santos wins landmark greenwashing case in Australia in major test of corporate net zero claims
News /
Manufacturing
Indonesia’s steel boom risks emissions spike
As global demand for steel is rising, Indonesia’s steel industry is one of the country’s largest industrial greenhouse …
Indonesia’s steel boom risks emissions spike
News /
Policy & Finance
Asia-Pacific set to miss most UN development goals as environmental decline deepens, report warns
Advances in health and industry are being overwhelmed by declines in climate action, biodiversity and marine conservation.
Asia-Pacific set to miss most UN development goals as environmental decline deepens, report warns
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