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

Banana fiber sari offers sustainable, biodegradable alternative in Bangladesh

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

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

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

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business

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

For International Youth Day, three youth conservation success stories

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

Plastic ‘Frankenrocks’ pose new pollution threat to coastal environment

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

Bangladesh ramps up use of recycled fabrics in ready-made garments

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Seaweed farmers in eastern Indonesia struggle in a changing climate

Annual Adam’s Peak pilgrimage leaves Sri Lanka biodiversity site littered

In Bangladesh, microplastic threat to frogs is also concern for rice farming

Strengthening crops with insect exoskeletons? Study says yes, by way of the soil

UN Paris meeting presses ahead with binding plastics treaty — U.S. resists

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for June 2023

Cycling oil palm biomass waste back into the soil can boost soil health, study says

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste

Even in recycling, microplastics remain a persistent polluter, study shows

U.N. parties are worlds apart on plastics treaty solutions

Kenyan science interns turn Lake Victoria’s fish waste into oil and flowers

FOIA lawsuit suggests Indonesian nickel miners lack environmental licenses

Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

Tobacco: Vaping and smoking drive environmental harm from farm to fingertip

As waste-to-energy incinerators spread in Southeast Asia, so do concerns

Dhaka’s ailing sewage system threatens human and environmental health

Bangladesh e-waste rules hang in limbo as electrical goods companies ask for delay

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