Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the goal to achieve "zero waste" for the company's direct operations, products and packaging by 2030. To address waste creation, Microsoft will reduce nearly as m
Over 50 percent of Kenyans who have died from COVID-19 have non-communicable diseases (NCD), an official said on Saturday. Rashid Aman, Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Health said t
02:46 Industries around the world have produced billions of metric tonnes of plastic. More than 90 percent of it does not get recycled.Papercreates other problems too, accounting for 2
SpaceX and NASA are aiming to launch the first official operational mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon human-rated spacecraft sometime in September, the agency revealed via a media update this week. Th
Malaysia has uncovered its largest case of abandoned toxic waste, after 110 containers of hazardous heavy metals from Romania and bound for Indonesia illegally entered
File photo taken on June 13, 2019 shows pig-feeding facilities at a pig farm in Fusong County, northeast China's Jilin Province. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai) China's top econ
Nearly 95 percent of the respondents in a recent survey look forward to garbage sorting on a larger scale, according to a China Youth Daily report. Among the 2,009 peo
Singaporeans have a growing appetite for plant-based meat substitutes. In fact, demand for products from companies like Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and Quorn have grown during the pandemic, partly b
The COVID-19 virus may have been circulating for years and so trying to identify its geographic origins could be a waste of time, according to a leading scientist.Tom Jefferson, an honorary senior re
There is growing evidence that COVID-19 could be transmitted through faeces in sewage or shared lavatory facilities following studies carried out in China and Singapore. /AP There is growing e
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday launched a fresh attack on President Donald Trump's "historic mismanagement" of the coronavirus pandemic as the number of confirmed cases rose i
02:29 Every country in the world faces some level of losses fromwaterdistribution systems with developing countries generally seeing higher waste.InBrazil, official figures show the ra
French startup Bellman has raised a $4.5 million (€4 million) seed extension round led by Lakestar with existing investors Connect Ventures and Financière Saint-James also participating. Bellman is f
Reebelo, a Singapore-based marketplace for refurbished electronics, announced it has raised a seed round of $1.25 million led by June Fund, with participation from Antler.The new funding will be used
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics skiing venue of Chongli, north China's Hebei Province, has built 10 waste transfer stations to fully cover garbage collection and trans
China's medical waste disposal capacity continued to expand over the past week, data from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment showed. The country's daily disposal
A month after TechCrunch watched, discussed and parsed the startups from Techstars’ April batch of virtual demo days, we’re back with the handy May edition.Over the past few days, TechCrun
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