Vietnam will spend USD280 million on pollution reduction and environmental protection between 2012 and 2015, according to the Ministry of National Resources and Environment (MNRE).
With China’s economy continuing to grow at pace, the country’s solid waste disposal market has also seen rapid expansion with 131 million tons of urban waste processed using “harmless means,” which include landfill, composting and incineration in 2011, according to the government.
Hong Kong’s new Chief Executive C Y Leung made a range of sweeping promises in his maiden policy address today aimed at tackling the city’s pressing environmental issues, including the city’s stifling air quality and absence of any real efforts towards nature conservation.
"For the well-being of future generations, the government and the community must commit to improving the environment. To tackle key issues such as waste management and air quality requires us to make choices," Leung said
A Japanese investor has offered waste management technology to process garbage at the Putri Cempo dump in Mojosongo, Surakarta, Central Java, which has been overloaded with piles of waste for the last five years.
Ramky Enviro Engineers, an Indian waste management company, plans to raise USD200 million in the nation's first initial share sale to finance a power plant fueled by urban refuse.
The Bangkok authorities are setting up a thermal incinerator to convert rubbish into electricity. The plant at the Nong Khaem Waste Management Centre will generate 5-MW of power which will be sold to the Metropolitan Electricity Authority.
Vietnam is changing its legal framework to help the environmental services industry grow, according to Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Bui Cach Tuyen.
Sprawling over 550 acres of land in the heart of India’s third largest city, Dharavi’s maze of dilapidated shacks and narrow, odorous alleyways is home to more than one million people. In this small area of Mumbai’s sprawling slum, hidden amid the warren of ramshackle huts and squalid open sewers are an estimated 15,000 single room factories, employing around a quarter of a million people and turning over a staggering USD1 billion each year.
The Vietnam capital of Hanoi has approved a budget of over USD5 billion for the collection, classifying and treatment of solid waste, according to the state-run Vietnam News Service.
The government of Hong Kong says it hopes to cut the city’s mountain of food waste by 10 percent in the next three years, according to Environment Secretary Wong Kam-sing.
Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, has 39 projects to tackle waste-water discharge and solid and toxic waste by 2015. All this waste from factories, hospitals and households will be treated by various technologies, according to Nguyen Van Phuoc, deputy director of the city's Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide four loans of as much as USD200 million to China Everbright International for agricultural and municipal waste-to-energy projects in China.
Delhi’s industries minister Haroon Yusuf on Monday said that the government is not interested in promoting industries that pose a threat to the city’s environment and its people, according to the Deccan Herald
On November 23 the Delhi government will begin enforcing a blanket ban on the manufacture, import, sale, storage and use of plastic bags, sheets, films or tubs, the second time in three years the city has attempted the move.
Governments throughout China are taking a tough stance towards plastics recyclers, an industry they say operates with disregard toward proper waste water treatment and other environmental controls, and many firms in the sector are starting to feel the pinch.
Hong Kong’s recently appointed Deputy Secretary for the Environment, Christine Loh, has revealed a goal of having the territory’s Air Pollution Control Ordinance completely rewritten, and possibly passed by the Legislative Council, by 2017.
Speaking to members of the European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong Loh said that, although government colleagues considered the prospect of rewriting the legislation to be “scary”, she believed it was necessary in order to maintain control of the city’s air quality in the long term.
The Greater China Infrastructure Fund has bought interests in a waste-to-power to company and a water supply company, according to Yin Lian Chen, chief investment officer of the Hong Kong-listed investment company.
Asia's largest aluminum can plant is being put into operation in Yeongju, South Korea by Novelis, an aluminum recycling and subsidiary of India-listed Hindalco Industries, one of Asia's largest integrated producers of aluminum and copper,
Rabobank has concluded that waste from the food, agriculture and agribusiness (F&A) industry is now viewed as an asset after years of being seen as an unwanted to cost. In its new report “Don't Waste a Drop!”, the Dutch bank says it’s a paradigm shift in the view of F&A waste, transitioning from a cost to a potential revenue source.
Shanghai is now getting power from a landfill methane power plant. The Shanghai Laogang Renewable Energy plant can generate up to 110 million kilowatt-hours of electricity for the local power grid each year - or power for the equivalent of 100,000 households.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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