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NEWS & INSIGHTS2025-04-02T16:10:23+08:00

Millions of tons of plastic are trashed every year. But what if we used it to pave our roads?

A road running through Accra, Ghana’s capital, looks like any other blacktop. Yet what most drivers don’t realize is that the asphalt under them contains a slurry of used plastics — shredded and melted bags, bottles and snack wraps — that otherwise were destined for a landfill. The impetus for many similar road projects underway in Ghana was an ambitious plan announced [...]

June 15th, 2021|

Revolutionising agriculture ― bio-fertilisers from palm oil empty fruit bunches

There’s increasing public exposure these days on the potential use of bio-fertilisers, ie., the use of natural, organic matter. Bio-fertilisers are “natural fertilisers that contains living microorganisms (live biomass or dormant cells of effective microbial strains) which, when applied to seed, plant surfaces, or soil, colonises the rhizosphere (ie., plant-root interface) and promotes growth by increasing the supply or availability [...]

January 7th, 2021|

Cutting greenhouse gases from food production is urgent, scientists say

Rising greenhouse gas emissions from worldwide food production will make it extremely difficult to limit global warming to the targets set in the Paris climate agreement, even if emissions from fossil-fuel burning were halted immediately, scientists reported. But they said that meeting one of the targets, limiting overall warming this century to 1.5°C could be achieved through “rapid and ambitious” [...]

November 17th, 2020|

SWCorp targets 40% recycling rate by 2025, current rate at 30%

The Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation (SWCorp) has increased the target for recycling rate in the seven states under its supervision to 40% by 2025. SWCorp director (research and technology division) Zulkifli Tamby Chik (pic) is confident of achieving the target following positive developments with the increase in the collection of recycled goods, apart from having reached the [...]

November 3rd, 2020|
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