South Korean 'sparrows' try to cap surge of throwaway plastic
At a workshop in Seoul, two environmental activists melt down old plastic bottle caps that thousands of volunteers known as "sparrows" have collected in a bid to fight a tide of plastic the novel coronavirus has helped unleash. Green activists Kim Yona and Lee Dong-I ...
Japanese company wants diners to eat everything, including the plate
In the future, when someone implores a dining companion to "finish off the meal," it just might mean that they are expected to eat the plate and cutlery, too.
Throwaway society: Rejecting a life consumed by plastic
How much single-use plastic do you think you consume in an average week living in Japan? What if you were to collect all the plastic bottles, shopping bags, food cartons, hand wipe wrappers, straws, cutlery, packaging, packaging-within-packaging and packaging-within-packaging-within-packaging that you accumulate in a week, ...
Why the plastic crisis matters
Humankind must find ways to get by without laying waste to the planet.
Get off the bandwagon of banning plastic bags
When used just once plastic bags can cause problems, but many people repurpose them.
A call for healthy, blue oceans in Asia and the Pacific
Without action, the world's oceans will contain nearly 250 million tons of plastic by 2025.
Nine deer in Nara died after swallowing plastic bags, preservation foundation says
Numerous plastic bags were found in the stomachs of more than half of the 14 wild deer that have died in Nara Park in Nara Prefecture since March, prompting the local government to take action to protect them. According to the Nara Deer Preservation Foundation, ...
Southeast Asia should want the world's junk
Forcing rich countries to keep and process all of their own recycling isn't the best way to protect the environment.
At the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, later this month, Japan aims to forge an agreement on the reduction of plastic waste inflow to the ocean to zero by 2050.
Japan adopts policy package aimed at cutting plastic waste ahead of Osaka G20 summit
Ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka at the end of June, the government adopts a policy package aimed at reducing plastic waste.
Malaysia, flooded with plastic waste, to send scrap back to source
Malaysia, which has become the dumping ground for the world's plastic waste, will send back nonrecyclable plastic scrap to the developed countries that sent it there, its environment minister said on Tuesday. Malaysia last year became the leading alternative destination for plastic scrap after China ...
