by Abriel | Sep 16, 2020 | 2020, Responsible Consumption & Production, What Inspires You?
Close to 100 partners, including hotels, food and beverage outlets, and schools, have pledged to reduce food wastage and the use of disposables as part of a National Environment Agency (NEA) campaign that was launched on Monday. This is almost double the number from...
by Abriel | Sep 15, 2020 | 2020, Responsible Consumption & Production
A law could be passed in Singapore that could allay business concerns about liability issues from the donation of unsold food. Mr Louis Ng, an MP for Nee Soon GRC and chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee on Sustainability and the Environment, plans to...
by Abriel | May 16, 2020 | 2020, Responsible Consumption & Production
The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting supply chains across the world, but in Singapore, dinner plates are full thanks to strategic moves by the Government to diversify food sources and build up local agricultural capabilities. Here, where 90% of food is imported, the...
by Abriel | May 10, 2020 | 2020, Responsible Consumption & Production
Prawn shells, orange peels and apple cores get tossed into the bin every day without a second thought. But scientists here have found a way to turn them into chitin, a biopolymer that can be made into food-grade packaging, using an organic process. The biodegradable...
by Abriel | Mar 2, 2020 | 2020, Responsible Consumption & Production
New York started banning the distribution of single-use plastic bags statewide on 1 March, a move with the ambitious goal of reducing the billions of discarded bags that stream annually into landfills, rivers and oceans. The law forbids most businesses from handing...
by Abriel | Jan 22, 2020 | 2020, Responsible Consumption & Production, What Inspires You?
Home-grown contact lens brand Two Of A Kind has launched a first-of-its-kind recycling initiative that encourages contact lens wearers to recycle their lens blister packs instead of disposing them. The blister pack is a plastic container with an aluminium foil cover...
