Waste management

• That is the message of "Our Ocean: The Fight for Sustainability," the five-part docuseries premiering on World Ocean Day on June 8, 2023 on TaiwanPlus .
• The program not only highlights the global challenges of ocean conservation, but also further demonstrates TaiwanPlus's commitment to sustainability and education through its news and programming.
• TaiwanPlus CEO Michael Yu said, "Taiwan's impending ocean crisis is a microcosm of a larger global environmental challenge.
• 'Our Ocean' further fulfills TaiwanPlus's commitment to highlighting pressing issues facing the world today, which of course includes the climate crisis."

• Mat Tech, a Provider of Specialty Rental and Waste Management Services, Marks AIP's Fifth Platform Investment
  HOUSTON, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Industrial Partners LLC ("AIP"), an industrial-focused private equity firm, today announced that it has made a significant investment in Mat Tech Industrial Services ("Mat Tech" or the "Company"), a provider of specialty rental and waste management services.
• Mat Tech will continue to be led by its founder and CEO Mike Tinnin in partnership with AIP.
• Founded in 2008, Mat Tech is a bundled service provider of waste and environmental services and specialty rental products for premier industrial customers in the downstream and petrochemicals sector.
• "As a one-stop shop in waste management and rental services, Mat Tech has a strong competitive advantage among large industrial customers that are looking for end-to-end services," said Bradford Rossi and Philip Wright, Co-Founders and Managing Partners of AIP.

• The Master Plan integrates its 2050 Net Zero carbon emissions commitment, introduces new social targets, and increases focus on governance
  SINGAPORE, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CapitaLand Investment (CLI) has elevated its environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts with its refreshed 2030 Sustainability Master Plan (SMP).
• Launched in 2020, the 2030 SMP is CLI's strategic blueprint that charts its journey towards its ambitious sustainability targets.
• The refreshed 2030 SMP[1] integrates CLI's commitment to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 and reduce scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 46%[2] by 2030.
• The refreshed 2030 SMP provides greater clarity on CLI's pathways to achieve its sustainability goals.

• No, I didn’t know what this term meant until recently either – apparently it’s when people try to recycle items that should be thrown away instead.
• New rules will ask people to stop “over-recycling” and to be more careful about what they put in their recycling bins.
• It’s no wonder that many admit it’s easier just to throw something in the bin instead of working out if it can be recycled.

Waste not

• While huge strides are being made in this area, we are still some way off all packaging being made in this way in a cost-effective manner.
• One of the main issues is there are differences in how recycling waste is collected across the UK – this can even be the case from one street to another.
• But if you’ve thrown yours away – or perhaps recycled it - the information should also be on your local authorities’ website.
• One of the main reasons there are currently variations in what different authorities do or don’t recycle is based on what the waste management companies they use to recyclable waste after it’s collected.

Recycling tips

• As with crisp packets and soft plastics, things such as pet food pouches can be recycled too but again not typically via your household collections – instead, these can often go to larger supermarkets for recycling.
• But it’s a good idea to rinse them to avoid contamination during the recycling process (and to stop your bin smelling in between collections).
• This is because opaque trays cannot be sorted from other types of plastic in a recycling facility as light cannot pass through them.
• Although it definitely isn’t a case of the more the merrier when it comes to recycling, the better we are as a society at dealing with our waste and not just sending it to landfill, the better our air and environment will be for us and future generations.