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25 January 2022

Fish in Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Waste

Plastic litter could triple and outweigh fish in the world's oceans by 2040: report

11 January 2022

Cafe in Seoul South Korea reusable cups

Waste

Plastic to go? All eyes on world’s first compulsory deposit return scheme for takeaway cups in South Korea

22 November 2021

Banana leaf packaging

Waste

Should Southeast Asia return to 'native' packaging to tackle the plastic crisis?

9 July 2021

plastic waste irreversible

Waste

Waste plastic deluge could soon prove irreversible

1 June 2021

MRF San Fernando Pampanga

Waste

Why a national ban on single-use plastic may not be the best solution for waste-choked Philippines

18 May 2021

disposable plastic waste cover

Waste

While the rest of the world tackles plastics disposal, the US resists

1 February 2021

Robert Downey Jr at the launch of Footprint Coalition at Davos

Policy & Finance

Robert Downey Jr's new green tech fund invests in The Liveability Challenge winner RWDC Industries

29 January 2021

A Plastic Bank collection centre in the Philippines

Waste

Plastic Bank hires first Asia sales chief as social enterprise eyes ninefold growth in 2021

27 January 2021

The River Plastic Recovery System from Seven Clean Seas

Waste

Singapore contraption aims to clean up Asia's plastic-polluted rivers

18 January 2021

TLC 2021 launch event

Carbon & Climate

In the race to net zero, which sustainability solutions are most needed?

12 January 2021

Ng Pei Kang

Waste

In the Covid era, circularity can be a new frontier as well as a desert: TRIA chief Ng Pei Kang

11 January 2021

A Muuse reusable cup in use in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic. A rent and return trial has been running in the business cluster, Taikoo Place. Image: Muuse

Waste

How has container reuse scheme Muuse survived Covid?

4 January 2021

Heavily packaged fruit in a supermarket in Singapore.

Waste

Could a plastic tax be coming to Asia?

11 December 2020

GA Circular's homepage

Waste

Circular economy consultancy GA Circular to scale back operations

30 November 2020

lucky strike ad smoking doctor

Policy & Finance

Advertisements harm the planet, researchers say

20 November 2020

Claire Sancelot, the founder of The Hive Bulk Foods

Corporate Responsibility

'In the DNA': How social entrepreneurs are getting creative in pandemic

24 October 2020

Beijing smoggy air

Cities

To cut plastic packaging waste in cities, curb air pollution

21 October 2020

Environment and sustainability minister Grace Fu

Waste

Is industry doing enough to tackle Singapore's waste problem?

20 October 2020

plastic imports fr uk to malaysia

Waste

Uneven efforts by world’s top waste exporters to reduce and recover waste, new study shows

13 October 2020

FairPrice store1

Waste

How Singapore’s biggest supermarket player plans to unpack the packaging waste issue

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