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Two workers sift through plastic waste collected for recycling.

Bangladesh’s new government implements strong measures to eliminate single-use plastic

Abu Siddique 2 Oct 2024
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

In the battle against plastic pollution, Asia’s informal workers are critical allies (commentary)

Annerieke Douma 2 Oct 2024

What will the Brazilian food industry do about plastic packaging?

Ellen Nemitz 19 Sep 2024
Plastic containers piled up.

Biden-Harris Administration must strengthen position on plastic reduction treaty (commentary)

Tim Grabiel 27 Aug 2024
An Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species that carries dengue.

In the wake of Bangladesh’s deadliest dengue outbreak, researchers respond

Hailey Smalley 2 Aug 2024
Two school boys planting a tree.

Protecting Nigeria one child & one tree at a time: Interview with Doyinsola Ogunye

Tarinipre Francis 24 Jul 2024
A excavator in a landfill in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh incinerator project sparks row between government & contractor

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 26 Jun 2024
Green Phenix artist Erwin Sprot with one of his creations, a human figure made with beer crown caps.

Can the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?

Sandra Weiss 20 May 2024
Microplastics

Scientists explore nature’s promise in combating plastic waste

Claire Asher 8 May 2024
Egrets at a landfill in Riau.

As plastic talks wrap up in Canada, fishers in Indonesia count the costs

Falahi Mubarok, Yogi Eka Sahputra 8 May 2024
Bioplastic samples in a lab.

Bioplastics as toxic as regular plastics; both need regulation, say researchers

Alden Wicker 22 Apr 2024
A farmer in a rice field.

Beneath the surface, a toxic tide threatens Bangladesh’s water lifeline

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Mar 2024
Fakir Altaf Hussain, a fisher in Bangladesh, fishing in his pond.

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Sean Mowbray 6 Mar 2024
A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024
Officers sort waste at a waste processing site in Bogor City, West Java.

Communities on troubled Java river mold future from plastic waste

Donny Iqbal 1 Feb 2024
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian utility PLN ordered to disclose coal plants’ emissions data

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2024
Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024
Plastic waste in water.

New AI model helps detect and identify microplastics in wastewater

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jan 2024
A waste processing management facility

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Nov 2023
Throwaway single-use plastic trash at a festival in Germany.

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran & petrochemical industry stall plastics treaty: Critics

Charles Pekow 22 Nov 2023
Arg-e Bam in Iran, a trading center on the famous Silk Road, known to be the largest adobe building in the world.

What’s old is new again: Bioarchitects plot route to circular economy

Sandra Weiss 26 Oct 2023
Radhavato Devi training an Indigenous woman to make sari with banana fiber.

Banana fiber sari offers sustainable, biodegradable alternative in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 20 Oct 2023
The Deekali Project: Women washing plastic waste to prepare for the grinding machine at a local recycling facility in Senegal.

As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?

Charles Pekow 19 Oct 2023
Plastics of all shapes, sizes, colors and composition enter the ocean every day, with largely unknown impacts.

Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

Claire Asher 9 Oct 2023
Clouds over mountains in Japan.

Up in the air: Study finds microplastics in high-altitude cloud water

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Oct 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023

Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business

Tatenda Chitagu 21 Aug 2023
Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse and Prop Library

From grassroots to government, Singapore takes lead in tackling e-waste

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Aug 2023
Volunteers clearing plastic trash gathered from river barriers. Image courtesy of Sam Benchegjib.

For International Youth Day, three youth conservation success stories

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 12 Aug 2023
A landfill with mixed waste.

Takin’ out the trash: How do transnational waste traffickers operate?

Guia Baggi, Laura Carrer, Rahma Behi, Virginia Kirst 3 Aug 2023

Plastic ‘Frankenrocks’ pose new pollution threat to coastal environment

Basten Gokkon 2 Aug 2023
Tridi Oasis recycles PET bottles to produce rPET flakes which could be used to make packing materials and textiles.

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Aug 2023

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