No longer able to export as much waste, companies seek new solutions TOKYO — Japanese companies are pouring investment into plastic recycling facilities to handle the rise in bottles and used home electronics remaining in the country following China’s near-total ban on imports of plastic waste. Established businesses are joining the field. Suntory Holdings helped develop a technology that reduces […]

As a political term, we might want to keep the circular economy in the present, but the practices that are part of it have long been part of human existence. Maikel Kuijpers explains. The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products […]

NamiGreen a local e-waste recycling company has vastly increased e-waste recycling rates in 2018, saying that this indicates that more and more Namibian companies are concerned about discarded electronica ending up on landfill sites. According to the company’s internal records, in 2018 more than 50,000 kg of e-waste were recycled, which is 52% more than […]

THE volume of plastic waste in the city has reduced significantly by as much as 30 percent, according to the General Services Office. GSO Head Eugene Buyucan, in his report during the flag-raising ceremonies last Monday, January 7, said the estimate was based on the observations of personnel monitoring the garbage flow at the waste […]

Bob Keefe of Environmental Entrepreneurs argues the new US Congress needs to wake up fast to the economic crunch that awaits as climate impacts escalate Never mind record temperatures, flooding, wildfires and rising seas. Recent reports about the state of climate change send another warning about its impacts: It’s going to clobber our economy. From […]

HONOLULU- A Big Island infant who fell ill in December has been diagnosed with rat lungworm disease, bringing the number of cases of the disease statewide last year to eight. So far, there have been no confirmed cases of rat lungworm disease in 2019. Officials said the infant, from East Hawaii, has been transferred to […]

The ocean can’t take any more. For centuries we have dumped our unwanted waste into the seas, creating a crisis that threatens not only marine life, but everything that depends on the seas. And despite our technological prowess, humans have so far been unable or unwilling to stem the tide of pollution entering our ocean. […]

Late last year, the Trump administration released the latest national climate assessment on Black Friday in what many assumed was an attempt to bury the document. If that was the plan, it backfired, and the assessment wound up earning more coverage than it probably would have otherwise. But much of that coverage perpetuated a decades-old practice, one […]

A Purdue University alumnus is using clean, solar energy to drastically reduce the electric bill for his northern Indiana hog farm with the help of a company based in the Purdue Research Park. Kraig Resler, an alumnus of Purdue’s College of Agriculture, partnered with Emergent Solar Energy to find ways to reduce energy costs, protect the […]

Most of us know there are many health benefits to eating organic food. But is the farming practice all that healthy for the environment? A new study suggests organic food might have some serious consequences for the environment when compared to conventionally produced food. Here’s what it found. STUDY: ORGANIC FARMING COMES WITH A ‘CARBON OPPORTUNITY COST’ Researchers […]