The EU is endangering around 35,000 British jobs and £150m in exports by ploughing ahead with a ban on palm oil, Malaysia has warned. Malaysian government minister Teresa Kok – who has been meeting British counterparts this week as part of a tour of European capitals – called on the UK to fight the EU’s […]

Some 25.5 million tons of waste are generated annually and five treatment methods are used — burning to generate electricity, turning it into micro-organic fertilizers, burial, gasification, and incineration – officials said at a recent conference held by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. More than 75 percent is buried, but only 30 percent […]

The Victorias Milling Company (VMC) inaugurated a 40-megawatt (MW) biomass power plant worth P2 billion in Victorias City, Negros Occidental, on Tuesday, as part of its celebration of 100 years in sugar production. The inauguration was led by VMC president Minnie Chua, VMC Chairman Wilson Young, Senators Cynthia Villar and Juan Miguel Zubiri, Third District […]

JAKARTA: The Indonesia Biodiesel Producers Association (APROBI) estimates the country may export up to 2 million kilolitres (kl) of unblended biodiesel in 2019 in an “optimistic scenario”, Vice Chairman Paulus Tjakrawan told reporters on Thursday. In a “pessimistic scenario”, he said biodiesel exports this year would be around 1 million to 1.2 million kl. This […]

PUTRAJAYA: Putrajaya has urged critics of waste-to-energy (WTE) plants to be more receptive to the idea, even as the government moves to clean up the accumulated rubbish in the country. Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other individuals did not have a good perception of the WTE. WTE […]

With a population of some 260 million people, Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of garbage, which includes plastic waste. In fact, a study conducted by the office of the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, in cooperation with the World Bank, showed that 80 percent of plastic waste thrown into Indonesia’s oceans came […]

For the first time in Singapore, a district is launching its own zero-waste masterplan, with a concrete timeline for eliminating or drastically reducing the use of products such as plastic straws. Announced by Nee Soon GRC MP Louis Ng on Saturday, the masterplan in Nee Soon East spans two years, with a focus on several […]

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin has big plans to change the country’s waste management industry during her first term in office. Her idea, which was first mooted in Dewan Rakyat on April 2, will see a centralised waste park handling plastic waste recycling projects. Any plastic waste factories […]

While the Thai government is promoting the use of palm oil to produce power, the latest price of the oil remains lower than the cost of producing it because the volume of output was 30% more than the expected quantity. The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives will survey the real quantity of palm oil to […]

The Indonesian Biodiesel Producers Association (APROBI) expects the trial of 30 percent biofuel ( B30 ) on vehicles will be completed by October. APROBI chairman Paulus Tjakrawan said in Jakarta that the association had begun the trial of B30 biofuel with the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, state energy holding company Pertamina, the Agency for […]