SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): From April 2025, bottled and canned drinks will cost 10 cents more, but shoppers will get the deposit back once they return the empty cans and plastic bottles for recycling. About 400 supermarkets – those larger than 200sq m – will house return points, Read more…
SINGAPORE – Environmentalists and green groups are perplexed by a recent social experiment by the National Environment Agency (NEA) which seemed to generate more waste while raising awareness about the impact of disposable ware on the environment. Last Saturday, a coffee booth doubling as a giant installation was set up Read more…
WASHINGTON: Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out today that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, the study found that of the 51 million tonnes of plastic waste generated Read more…
In the move towards green growth and a resource efficient economy, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is increasingly being recognised as an effective waste management policy. As municipal recycling costs have burgeoned, EPR as a concept introduced the idea of producers taking responsibility for the collection, recovery and disposal of their Read more…
In coming years, seaweed may revolutionise the packaging industry as we know it. Researchers and scientists in Norway and Indonesia have taken big strides with regards to developing seaweed-based packaging, eschewing the need for plastic. Nory Mulyono, head of the Food Technology Department at the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Read more…
For over two decades, many developed countries have sent massive amounts of plastic wastes to China for recycling. But that option is drying up following a Chinese ban on rubbish imports this year, forcing countries, particularly developed nations, to seriously rethink how to process their unwanted materials – a question Read more…
Japanese fans clean up stadium Japan on Tuesday, June 19, became the first Asian side ever to beat a South American team at the World Cup. The Blue Samurai downed Colombia 2-1, as the South Americans played with a man down for 86 minutes in Saransk, Russia. Read More
ISWA is excited to announce that the ISWA Video Award 2018 is open for submissions. The theme of the contest is “What happens to my waste?”. Entries shall explore this theme and waste in general as one of the major global problems of our society in an original, creative manner. Whether documentary, Read more…
JAKARTA – Officials from the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs, the World Bank, Norway and Denmark met on Tuesday (30/01) to initiate efforts to tackle an alarming increase in ocean pollution in Indonesian waters. Read More
BRUSSELS: EU regulators are searching for ways to increase recycling of plastic, as waste piles up in ports after China banned imports of “foreign garbage” from the start of 2018. Read More