#landfill News
Battery recycling needs standardising, say experts, who also call for loopholes to be closed and awareness raised among EV owners.
Despite a reduction in the requisite material, China continues to build new waste-to-power incinerators. Its policy for utilising waste needs standardising and refining, writes Li Jiacheng.
Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, has a construction boom and plastic waste problem; solving both could help achieve its climate goals.
One truckload of perfectly wearable textiles is dumped in landfills or incinerated every second. Why? And what is being done to challenge the fashion trade's wasteful business model?
#landfill Opinion
As countries prepare to meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution, the perspectives of South Asia must be heard loud and clear.
The historic treaty agreed by UN representatives in Nairobi earlier this year was in the spotlight again at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Voices from government, business and civic society are shaping the way forward.
An effective international agreement on ocean plastic pollution should account for all aspects of plastics production – from manufacturing to disposal, and it must involve governments, the private sector, and the public.
Aside from the inflow from other countries, a bulk of the plastic problem originates from Malaysians. As industry players await the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme, relevant regulations are required for a circular economy.
Manufacturing
A world without waste: how gold mining is going green
#landfill Videos
EB Studio
About four out of every five people impacted by sea-level rise by 2050 will live in East or Southeast Asia, creating an urgent need climate-smart solutions for cities. This year’s Innovate4Climate summit will look at the climate-smart solutions the region needs.
To raise awareness about plastic pollution in oceans, popular football club Manchester United has announced new uniforms made from recycled ocean plastic.
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The new development - to be used for military exercises - will reclaim land using less sand, and introduces the city-state’s first sub-sea level polder.
Traditional landowners say a plan to store radioactive waste near sacred Aboriginal sites is a desecration of their heritage.
#landfill Press Releases
Dole Sunshine Company
Dole Sunshine Company turns banana waste into fibres of purpose with Musa Fabric
The Prophets
‘Rapic cycle’ - Oxwash secures £500K in 15 hours
