Homegrown fuel: Jokowi kicks off B30 policy
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has symbolically kicked off the mandatory use of B30 biodiesel – eight days ahead of Jan. 1, when the policy was initially scheduled to go into force. B30 refers to a biodiesel blend containing 30 percent fuel produced from palm oil. “We can say that this B30 policy can save us […]
How Indonesia fighting waste crisis
On the morning of February 21, 2005, a garbage landslide in a 60-meter-high and 200-meter-long trash mountain at Leuwigajah landfill, Cimahi City, West Java, swept two residential areas and killed 157 people.
How will Singapore defuse a 16-year waste timebomb?
Singapore is one of the world’s most efficient, liveable, and prosperous cities. But the tropical city-state is struggling in one important area—how it manages waste. The country’s streets, parks and waterways are famously clean, thanks to a well-tuned rubbish collection system that is the envy of Southeast Asia. But as the amount of waste it […]
Hteinpin waste-to-energy project awaits parliamentary approval
The waste-to-energy project, to be implemented with Poland’s ODA loan of 50 million euro, will start in May at the Hteinpin garbage dump site if the Union Parliament gives the nod, said U Cho Tun Aung, Head of Environmental Conservation and Cleaning Department at the Yangon City Development Committee. “Currently, this proposal has been sent […]
IEAT to seek more waste-to-energy help
The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) will ask energy officials to increase support of waste-to-energy schemes to better dispose of increasing amounts of industrial waste caused by state promotion of domestic investment.
IFC backs Vietnam waste-to-energy plant
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has approved a US$30 million financing package for a waste-to-energy (WtE) power plant in Vietnam.
India imports 183,914 tonnes of Malaysian edible palm oil in November
NEW DELHI, Dec 13 — India imported 183,914 tonnes of edible palm oil from Malaysia in November, industry data showed on Friday. The imports from Malaysia comprised crude palm oil (CPO) (140,280 tonnes), RBD palmolein (41,600 tonnes) and crude palm kernel oil (CPKO) (2,034 tonnes), according to the Mumbai-based Solvent Extractors’ Association (SEA) of India. […]
India suspends 39 import licenses for refined palm oil
India has suspended 39 licences to import 452,303 tonnes of refined palm oil after a surge in duty-free purchases from neighbours such as Nepal and Bangladesh which are not key producers, government and trade sources told Reuters. The suspension could reduce India’s palm oil imports in the next few months and pressure Malaysian palm oil futures […]
Indian trade body urged not to deter members from buying Malaysian palm oil
BANGI, Oct 22 — The Ministry of Primary Industries has urged the Solvent Extractors’ Association (SEA) of India not to deter its members from importing Malaysian palm oil over remarks on New Delhi’s action in disputed Kashmir. Its minister, Teresa Kok said while Malaysia is trying to understand the underlying sentiment associated with SEA’s advisory, […]
Indonesia “very likely” to delay B35 biodiesel rollout, energy ministry official says
JAKARTA, July 19 (Reuters) – Indonesia is “very likely” to delay the rollout of biodiesel with 35% palm oil content, known as B35, which was previously expected to start on July 20, energy ministry official Dadan Kusdiana said on Tuesday.