Local entrepreneurs ─ from a café owner and a honey producer to a craft maker ─ share stories of resilience and commitment in their sustainable businesses
Tag: Recycling
The ‘billionaires’ waste recycling village is seriously polluted
Scrap piles up right at the entrance gate to the village, and covers all canals, alleys and heaps up at houses. Schools are ‘attacked’ by waste and thick black smoke.
The world’s plastic crisis in the Mekong region
As the world’s single largest contributor of plastic waste into the marine environment, Mekong countries must provide leadership to restore health in our oceans.
Time for Myanmar to beat plastic pollution
Myanmar can solve its plastic pollution problem. It starts with reducing personal use of single use plastic and switching to alternatives
Farming in transition: How smallholder farms in the Mekong could thrive amid a changing landscape
Much of a smallholder farmer’s resources are already found in the farm. The key is knowing how to efficiently use and recycle them so that nothing is ever wasted
Trash talk: Vietnam slowly sinking under mountains of waste
The oceans are spewing up what one of the world’s biggest plastic polluters is dumping into them, and it’s not pretty.