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...plastics treaty As Southeast Asia deals with the continued influx of imported plastic waste, a global plastics treaty still hangs in the balance. The most recent round of negotiations in Geneva in Aug...

1 四月 2026

Unpacking Asia's plastic pollution problem

...Asia's plastic challenges: Drivers like low collection rates (less than 50 per cent in rural Southeast Asian areas, for example) and risks such as 14.1 million tonnes annual leakage by 2050 Corporat...

25 二月 2026

A recycling centre in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

...plastic, there has been a significant increase in demand for recycled plastic." Virgin plastic prices have spiked since the breakout of the Iran war, increasing the competitiveness of recycled plasti...

3 四月 2026

A farmer putting fertiliser in a rice field in Central Vietnam

...Asia and the Pacific, the multilateral Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned. ADB’s brief titled The 2026 Conflict in the Middle East and Macroeconomic Risks for Asia and the Pacific compared market...

30 三月 2026

...plastics, 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 二月 2026

Plastic waste from Severe Tropical Storm Wipha

...plastics, [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 [plastics] issue," he added. China and Japan are some ...

29 七月 2025

...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 八月 2025

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 #PlasticFreeParty campaign. This pledge calls on the live music industry—venues, festivals, artists, promoters,...

7 七月 2025

A beach in Balikpapan, Indonesia's "oil city", is covered in plastic trash.

...Southeast Asian countries on plastic production caps? The stance is currently not very clear across the different Southeast Asian countries. There is no explicit support for plastic production caps a...

12 八月 2025

A sweet sarghom plantation in Kijang, Bintan, Indonesia.

...Southeast Asia for almost 30 years, most recently in fuel procurement for the super yachts industry. PT BPE is partly backed by fuel distribution company Parama Energi and Capitol Group, a Jakarta-bas...

10 四月 2026

...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 十一月 2025

...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 十月 2025

used laptops in a warehouse in Singapore

...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 十一月 2025

SM coastal cleanups go beyond trash, teach communities to care

...Southeast Asia’s largest mall developers and operators, with 89 malls in the Philippines and 9 in China, SM Supermalls continues to evolve its spaces, experiences, and partnerships, building des...

13 四月 2026

...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 microplastic parti...

10 十一月 2025

Louis Ng has joined 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 八月 2025

...plastics treaty risk becoming a shield for polluters, not a solution to the plastics crisis." High-ambition countries are the biggest financiers Countries pushing for mandatory, global caps on plastic...

19 八月 2025

Trash piled high at the Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, near Jakarta.

...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 Asian and developing markets need infrastr...

19 八月 2025

Plastic trash litters a beach in Balikpapan, Kalimantan.

...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 二月 2025

...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 plastics project manager at...

20 八月 2025

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