Plastic News
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Is industry doing enough to tackle Singapore's waste problem?Though consumers in the city-state produce more waste per person than almost anywhere, businesses need to be held responsible for excessive packaging, experts argued at an event held by Eco-Business and FairPrice Group. -
Uneven efforts by world’s top waste exporters to reduce and recover waste, new study showsJapan, Germany and the United Kingdom have been able to stem the tide of plastic at home, found a study by a UK-based packaging retailer. But have their waste exports to developing countries skewed the picture?
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Food, waste, power: Ingenuity helps the climateElectricity from the gentlest winds, plastic from exhaust, old packing turned into lunch: human ingenuity helps the climate. -
Wood, metal, paper and fabric can help cut climate-harming plasticsWithout action, climate-changing emissions from plastics are expected to increase threefold by 2050, researchers warn.
Plastic Opinion
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Here's how we can eradicate plastic pollution by 2040– The business-as-usual approach to plastic pollution isn’t working. In the midst of a pandemic, Indonesia leads with ambitious plans to reduce plastic waste and pollution. -
How to build a circular economy– The take-make-waste model is driving the climate crisis and depleting the planet of much-needed resources. Here are 3 ways to transition toward circularity. -
Trade barriers are slowing action on plastic pollution. Here’s how to fix that.– With cross-border frictions preventing economies of scale in tackling plastic pollution, facilitating trade can help the world reduce, re-use and recycle. This calls for better collaboration between governments and firms.
Videos
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How can Singapore kick its plastic bag habit?– Singapore gets through 2 million plastic bags a day. Why do Singaporeans use so many bags, and what will it take to reduce consumption?
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Cutting meat, food waste and plastic: The sustainability trials of Asia's biggest healthy-eating chain
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Cutting meat, food waste and plastic: The sustainability trials of Asia's biggest healthy-eating chain
– As Singapore-based salad bar chain SaladStop! marks its 10th anniversary, co-owner Katherine Desbaillets talks to Eco-Business about phasing out meat, food waste and single-use packaging, and dealing with customers who refuse to pay 10 cents for a plastic bag. -
Manila’s informal settlers face relocation to give way to massive bay clean up– The Philippine government has begun the process of relocating more than 200,000 families living along waterways to restore Manila Bay, the main body of water in the capital.
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We are eating a credit card's worth of plastic every week– A campaign by the WWF Singapore has revealed that the average person consumes approximately 5g of plastic every week. The NGO is calling on governments and businesses around the world to forge a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution.
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