Landfill

Beijing city authorities say they will get to grips with the Chinese capital’s large number of unofficial landfills, promising to regulate 75 of them this year and another 100 next year with the aim of bring 250 informal dumps into line by 2015.

Read Full Story 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.

The Hong Kong Government’s Environment Bureau has abandoned a HKD23 billion (USD3 billion) funding request for major solid waste disposal projects, including a waste-to-energy incineration facility, following its failure to gain support from lawmakers. Faced with the prospect of Hong Kong’s three landfills reaching full capacity in the next few years, the government had proposed building a 3,000 tonne per day Integrated Waste Management Facility on a man-made island south of Lantau Island as well extending one of the exiting landfill sites.

Global express logistics giant UPS has extended its carbon emissions off-set program to include support for two sustainable energy programs in Asia.