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A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 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

Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024

Wheat field in Kansas. Image by Lane Pearman via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Getting the bread: What’s the environmental impact of wheat?

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Aug 2023

Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 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

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

In Bangladesh, around 4.2 million people work in the garment industry.

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

Abu Siddique 28 Jul 2023

A wild giant otter with a discarded single-use plastic bottle.

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

Charles Pekow 27 Apr 2023

Seaweed harvesting in the Philippines.

Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

Jewel S. Cabrera 17 Jan 2023

A boy with a jar of cigarette butts.

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

Sean Mowbray 22 Dec 2022

Different kinds of LED filament bulbs.

LED lights could contribute to massive carbon reductions

Ian Morse 9 Nov 2022

Playing on an Xbox.

Playing dangerously: The environmental impact of video gaming consoles

Claire Asher 25 Oct 2022

E-waste management.

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

Maksuda Aziz 21 Oct 2022

Men processing abacá fiber.

Clothes sourced from plants could expand deforestation – or abate it

Ian Morse 12 Oct 2022

Sorting through plastic

Experts decry ‘funny math’ of plastics industry’s ‘advanced recycling’ claims

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Sep 2022

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