#hazardous waste News
Carbon & Climate
The consequences of Israel’s invasion of Gaza: environmental and humanitarian devastation
A small community of Palestinian and Filipino-Palestinian refugees in Quezon City known as 'Little Gaza' highlights the severe costs of the ongoing Gaza conflict, both humanitarian and environmental.
Using misleading recycling symbols, the plastics industry has duped regulators and consumers into believing in the circularity of plastic, a study by Planet Tracker finds. The non-profit warns investors of plastic liability risks.
The region’s per-capita burden is low but its recycling laws cannot handle the sheer volume of junked phones and fridges. Globally, improperly discarded gadgets, including solar panels, add to a mounting health and environmental crisis.
Multinational consumer goods brands have gone cold on recycled plastic – now priced higher than virgin – and look likely to miss their 2025 recycling targets. Recyclers in Asia are suffering as a result, particularly waste pickers at the vulnerable end of the value chain.
#hazardous waste Opinion
Public opinion will dictate how Japanese seafood is received after the wastewater is disposed of into the Pacific Ocean.
23,000 pieces of ‘space junk’ float in orbit, and almost as many ideas for how to get rid of them are being floated on Earth.
Increased government and corporate accountability, including the full implementation of the EPR law and more investment into upcycling innovations, are equally critical to create a more sustainable waste management ecosystem in Singapore.
Tackling the causes ocean pollution can have compounding effects. These seven solutions detail how to reduce plastic waste and other ocean pollution.
Manufacturing
A world without waste: how gold mining is going green
#hazardous waste Videos
Manufacturing
Watch: Who holds the solution to microfibre pollution?
Microfibre pollution is a growing problem around the world. What's a concerned citizen to do?
Where do your coffee cups, clothes and household appliances go to die? New documentary Trash Trail traces the afterlife of consumer goods in Singapore to reveal surprising findings.
Traditional landowners say a plan to store radioactive waste near sacred Aboriginal sites is a desecration of their heritage.
More than 3 million have watched Sofia Ashraf’s 'Kodaikanal Won't' - based on American singer Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' - which calls for Unilever to clean up a mercury-contaminated factory in India.
