EcoFriend awards were given to eight citizens of Singapore for their contribution towards a greener Earth, their recycling efforts and passion for educating others. These eight residents were chosen from 237 nominations received for the ninth annual award. Among the recipients of the EcoFriend awards is a 16-year-old student and president of the green club in […]
A new zero-sort recycling scheme has saved the City of Hornell, New York, USA $1000 dollars per month in landfill and transportation charges. Under the new scheme implemented from end of July 2015, the city’s waste contractor has been using the services of a zero-sort recycling centre. The basic idea was to encourage residents to […]
Scotland based charitable organisation, Alloa Community Enterprises (ACE), has won a domestic glass recycling contract worth 500,000 pounds from North Lanarkshire Council. ACE Recycling Group will be collecting glass bottles from around 100,000 households in the region for the next 18 months. The charity believes that this will generate ten new jobs and twelve trainee […]
Things are about to change for a country having a dismal domestic recycling rate of 7%, with the creation of a national strategy for Municipal Solid Waste Management. Jordan doesn’t have a countrywide household recycling plan, despite its residents producing around 1.81 million tonnes of waste per annum. The Jordanian cabinet has recently adopted a recycling strategy put forward by Ministry of Municipal Affairs. According to Hussain Mhaidat, director […]
Malaysia’s Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp) has seen a reduction in the amount of domestic recyclable waste collected from community bins despite increased waste segregation by households. Garbage collection contractors blame rag pickers and individual recyclers for the ‘missing waste’. With the implementation of new household waste separation rules from September 2015, residents have been segregating paper, plastic, glass, metal, […]
Domestic recycling in Singapore fell from 22% in 2010 to 19% in 2014 with food waste being the culprit. Domestic food waste, which is not segregated in Singapore, has increased by 30% in the interim period. Some of this get mixed up with other recyclabes, contaminate them and render them unfit for recycling. Authorities are […]