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Recycling

Energy & Commodities

China’s used cooking oil ships to US as war drives biofuel boom

Reverse vending machines by SG Recycle on display at the launch of its headquarters in Jurong on Mar 11.
Singapore

Local firm SG Recycle rolling out 380 machines for beverage container return scheme

China dominates the processing of black mass, a dark, powdery cocktail of metals that can be drawn from old electric-vehicle batteries or manufacturing scrap.
Energy & Commodities

China lowers battery scrap import duty to aid recycling sector

These Emerging Enterprise Sustainability Award finalists are helping to reduce, reuse and recycle waste.
Emerging Enterprise
EMERGING ENTERPRISE AWARDS 2025

Leveraging technology for less in landfills

Cora Environment is taking steps to “pivot itself into the next paradigm of waste management”, says its CEO Lee Kok Kin.
ESG

SembWaste rebrands to Cora Environment, commits S$200 million to waste management growth

Consumers' appetite for freaky-cute Labubu dolls (made largely of polyester and polyvinyl chloride) is evidence a lot more work is needed to break the world's plastics habit.
Opinion & Features

Labubu is blowing up hopes of a plastics halt

Speaker of Parliament Seah Kian Peng (far left) and Income Insurance CEO Andrew Yeo (second from left) at the flag off for the 5 km and 10 km categories.
Lifestyle

Income Eco Run raises S$70,000 for WWF-Singapore

Major markets like Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam capture just 8 to 25 per cent of plastic waste for recycling in major urban areas.
ESG

High costs limit plastic recycling in South-east Asia: Bain

Waste to landfill per capita per day remains about the same as the pre-pandemic baseline in 2018.
Singapore

Singapore’s solar energy deployment on track to meet Green Plan targets, but waste to landfill reduction lags

Under the government’s plans, online marketplaces will have to register with the Environment Agency and report data on UK sales of their overseas sellers.
International

Britain to make online marketplaces pay more for electricals recycling

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