Late last month, the National Environment Management Agency (Nema) slapped a ban on the use of polythene bags — those one-time-use bags known in Thai as toong gobgaeb. With the ban that took effect after a six-month grace period, Nema Read more…
JAKARTA – Indonesia comes into the world’s spotlight on waste disposal. Indonesia is currently the second country in the world to produce waste and pollute the environment and even the oceans. Therefore, the problem of waste in Indonesia is an Read more…
MOST of Perth’s municipal and commercial waste might soon be trucked to Premier Mark McGowan’s seat of Rockingham for waste-to-energy incineration. A 20-year landmark deal was made on Wednesday night by the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council for all its residual Read more…
A Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation (SWCorp) representative said the company would look into the rubbish, left along the side of Jalan Sultan Abdullah over the past three months by motorists who had stopped by the roadside to Read more…
For the first time in a dozen years, Sihanoukville has a new waste management company, and it has already started collecting trash ahead of the Pchum Ben holiday. After a one-month bidding process, Sihanoukville officials on Friday awarded a 10-year Read more…
Bengaluru – It is unlikely that garbage woes in the city will be resolved at the earliest as every effort intended towards introducing transparency and reforms in the solid waste management sector — be it introduction of biometric attendance for Read more…
Maldives’ pledge came at the 2nd Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities which ended in Bangkok with governments resolved to move towards a pollution free region, highlighting the urgency of addressing marine litter and micro plastics. becoming the 26th country, Read more…
The usage of products from the technology or even the automobile industry for example will yield a necessary by-product: waste that can then be processed by recyclers and will then be reused again and reintroduced into the product lifecycle or Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s already soaring plastic demand may rise even further as the government plans to ban waste-plastic imports by the end of this year, which will curb domestic plastic recycling. The expected increase in plastic demand highlights the Read more…
NO compounds have been issued to joint management bodies and management committees of high-rise residential buildings since the enforcement period for the waste segregation at source policy started on Sept 1. Penang Island City Council (MBPP) Urban Services director Mubarak Read more…