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Issue 39: The Great Singapore Shoe Scandal; real estate’s uncounted carbon

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Kenneth Lim

Kenneth Lim

Published Fri, Sep 15, 2023 · 02:49 PM
    • Improving the circularity of certain key materials in Singapore’s economy could be problematic without better ways to measure and ensure outcomes along the supply chain.
    • Improving the circularity of certain key materials in Singapore’s economy could be problematic without better ways to measure and ensure outcomes along the supply chain. ILLUSTRATION: KENNETH LIM

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    In this issue: Singapore’s shoes recycling programme goes astray, while Schroders’ global real estate head explains that buyers don’t care enough about embodied carbon in properties.

    Singapore

    Land of lost soles 

    There was a fair bit of national sole searching in Singapore this week after Reuters discovered that shoes collected under a government-supported recycling programme had been shipped instead to Indonesia.

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