Why Incineration Isn’t The Sustainable Way Forward?
Like many Western countries, Singapore too was used to sending a huge proportion of its recyclable plastic overseas - most of it making...
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- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
E-Waste and the Importance of Electronics Recycling
Recycling – when this R-word comes to mind, many of us often think of soda cans, water bottles, cardboard boxes, or newspapers – common...
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- Jul 9, 2021
- 4 min
The Circular Economy
A circular economy is a systemic approach to economic development designed to benefit multiple stakeholders – businesses, society, and...
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- Jun 30, 2021
- 2 min
EU Bans Single-Use Plastic
On 3rd July, the ban on certain single-use plastic products enters into force, and marking requirements enter into force. The EU is...
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- Jun 23, 2021
- 2 min
The Sharing Economy
A sharing economy is defined as an economic system in which assets and services are shared between private individuals. It is used as an...
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- Jun 16, 2021
- 3 min
Trash, trash, trash
Located offshore, the island is Pulau Semakau. It is the home to our trash and it is in trouble. Most of us Singaporean have probably...
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- Jun 9, 2021
- 4 min
The True Cost of Cheap Food
Low prices! Discounts! Slashed Prices! White bold words contrasted against the bright orange and yellow signboards. Time and again,...
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- Jan 26, 2021
- 7 min
Trash talk: the rubbish behind "recycling" numbers
These symbols on your everyday plastic items tell you that you can recycle them. Or do they? Be they on your food containers, liquid...
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- Dec 1, 2019
- 2 min
Stories by Jane
Story-telling is the most powerful tool to bring people together. "And that simply mean, that is me. This is, Jane" said Jane Goodall...
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- Oct 24, 2019
- 2 min
Who is the top plastic polluter?
The global movement Break Free From Plastic released its report on the most plastic polluting brands.
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- Oct 7, 2019
- 5 min
Understanding bioplastics
A major source of confusion still for consumers trying to make better choices, barePack explains what biobased plastics really are.
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- Sep 30, 2019
- 2 min
FDA approves OceanBound Plastics
Envision Plastics was the first to receive the FDA's approval for food packaging. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
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- Aug 7, 2019
- 1 min
A brief history of Plastic Addiction
Hard to imagine a world without plastic? Look back on when plastic was still an innovation that required to be "sold" to the public...
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- Aug 7, 2019
- 1 min
8 Essential Plastic Pollution Facts
90.5% of all plastic waste has never been recycled... here are 8 facts to explain, quickly, the plastic pollution crisis.
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- Jul 29, 2019
- 2 min
How much does single-use cost?
Since the 1950s, more than 9.1 billion tons of plastic has been produced... by 2014, plastic production had grown no less than 20 times.
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- Jun 6, 2019
- 3 min
Why plastic bag bans aren’t yet reducing plastic pollution
The ubiquitous plastic bag has been restricted in 127 countries of 192 reviewed. The new report from the UN Environment and WRI states...
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- Mar 19, 2019
- 2 min
Whale dies from eating more than 80 plastic bags
A young whale washed up in the Philippines on Saturday We really don't like writing about all the animals that die every day either...
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