BALANGA CITY, Bataan — The provincial government announced Friday that a British banker has presented a proposal to build a 100-megawatt (MGW) power plant using solid wastes with funding of USD500 million. Vice Governor Crisanta Garcia said documentation was already ongoing for the proponent’s desire to set up the plant at the Freeport Area of […]

When diners at the National University of Singapore’s Raffles Hall toss out their food scraps, they join the vanguard of environmental sustainability. By composting unwanted food, the students take the first step to generate power that will eventually charge their cell phones. Confused? Here’s how the energy is created: The Raffles Hall discarded food scraps […]

VANCOUVER — About 1,500 tonnes of garbage that is being sent back to Canada from the Philippines will be taken to a facility in Burnaby, B.C., that turns waste into electricity. The regional district of Metro Vancouver says it has been selected as the preferred site for the disposal of the waste by Environment and […]

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 […]

A S$40 million waste-to-energy research facility that converts rubbish collected from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campus into electricity and other by-products was launched on May 27, 2019. Junn Loh reports. 27 May 2019 11:34AM (Updated: 27 May 2019 11:32PM) SINGAPORE: A S$40 million waste-to-energy research facility that converts rubbish collected from the Nanyang Technological […]

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has urged cities across the country to set up waste-to-energy plants this year to tackle the country’s growing mountain of trash, according to a statement published on the cabinet secretary’s website on Tuesday. Indonesia’s incumbent president Joko Widodo, who was re-elected on April’s election gestures as he delivers […]

THE CAMBODIAN government is seeking a private partner to invest in a waste to energy plant to be developed in Phnom Penh. Reports in Phnom Penh Post said the government had asked the Ministry of Mines and Energy to look into this. The city generates more than 3,000 tonnes of rubbish daily and is currently […]

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has issued the guidelines on the establishment and operation of waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities for the treatment of municipal solid waste in the country. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu recently signed DENR administrative order 2019-21 which contained the guidelines for the WTE establishment. “We hope that we […]

The Ministry of Economic and Finance on Tuesday announced it is looking at processes of turning waste into energy as a partial solution to the country’s alarming levels of waste production. For in depth analysis of Cambodian Business, visit Capital Cambodia . In a meeting Tuesday officials from the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the […]

HCM CITY — The HCM City People’s Committee has approved the construction of three plants to generate electricity from waste using advanced technologies, and work on them will start in September and October, according to the city Department of Natural Resources and Environment. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, the department’s director, Nguyễn Toàn Thắng, said the plants are expected […]