With China’s decision to stop taking in the world’s plastic waste and recyclables, countries like Singapore will have to consider the limitations and alternatives to plastic recycling. SINGAPORE: If you think putting your plastic waste into the blue bin means it will automatically be recycled, think again. Read More
SINGAPORE – A recycling initiative is hoping to turn trash into cash for charity, by donating funds raised from recycling electronic waste to help needy students. Read More
SINGAPORE – Waterway Point’s FairPrice Finest outlet now boasts a “reverse vending machine” to encourage recycling. Instead of spitting out cans or bottles of drinks, it will identify, sort, and collect used ones which are then sent to recycling plants in neighbouring countries. Read More
Tour operators in Krabi province have called on authorities concerned to quickly come up with effective measures to deal with household effluent which has been discharged into the sea around Ao Nang beach for a long time. Read More
The about 1 million citizens in the southern city, also known as Mysore, are in the vanguard of a campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clean up the country and recycle rubbish into compost and electricity. The task is gargantuan, but the approach in Mysuru — combining the availability Read more…
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — With a goal to reduce marine debris and advance a circular economy, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company , has announced a joint effort with The Indonesian Aromatic & Plastic Olefin Industry Association (INAPLAS); Indonesia Read more…
India’s iconic white marvel, the Taj Mahal, meaning “Crown of the Palace,” which is an ivory-white marble mausoleum built 369 years ago by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, has decayed in “all yellow” due to air pollution over the past 25 years. According Read more…
The Hong Kong government likes to tell people how to go about their public and private lives. From teaching citizens how to wash their hands to ordering healthy dishes on the menu, from befriending neighbours in the same building to avoiding exorbitant overseas roaming charges, there are public education campaigns Read more…
Winds blowing west-east in rainy season are bringing the trash from the ocean and covering popular beaches south of Bali. Going surfing this time of year it does not mean fighting waves only, but also fighting trash, mostly plastic./span> Read More
With holidays approaching, many of us are mindful of the need to collect and recycle all the additional plastic, paper and other waste that we are about to generate. This year, however, there are questions about where that waste will end up. China, the world’s largest importer of scrap, is Read more…