Waste burning in the Philippines is prohibited under the country’s Clean Air Act, but this has not stopped private companies from trying to construct waste incinerators that produce electricity. Filipino infrastructure conglomerate Metro Pacific Investment Corporation’s proposal for a P22 billion (US$423 million) waste-to-energy plant is expected to be approved this month in Quezon City, […]

Acropower, a subsidiary of Acromec, an engineering firm based in Singapore, has signed an agreement with Chew’s Agriculture, a commercial egg producer in Singapore, which will allow Acropower to acquire poultry waste from Chew’s Agriculture for it to be converted into biogas. The biogas will then be used to generate electricity. Acropower stated in a […]

SINGAPORE — Two Singaporean students have made it to the global finals of the Google Science Fair for their project which seeks to find a possible source of renewable energy from food waste — such as sugarcane pulp sourced at hawker centres here. Chosen from a shortlist of 100 regional entries, Emma Tan and Jenevieve […]

KUALA LUMPUR (June 26): Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd (PetChem), the petrochemical arm of Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas), is collaborating with Plastic Energy Ltd, a chemical recycling company, to address plastics waste that cannot be recycled by conventional means in Malaysia. The two inked a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday to jointly perform a feasibility study […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Japanese corporation Fujita is conducting a feasibility study on implementing production of electricity and fertilizer from waste in Monywa, according to Kyaw Myo Win, chairman of Monywa Township Municipal Committee. The Osaka based Zaibatsu will provide 40 percent through its Myanmar branch while the remaining 60 percent will be provided by the regional government. […]

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 […]