HONOLULU – Three B-2 Spirit bombers and more than 200 Air Force personnel have been deployed to the islands from Missouri. “This training is crucial to maintaining our regional interoperability,” said Lt. Col. Joshua Dorr, 393rd Bomb Squadron director of operation, in a news release. “It affords us the opportunity to work with our allies […]

OCEAN NOT OUR GARBAGE COLLECTOR Re: Plastic and a hard place, letter, Jan. 5 I couldn’t stop laughing at another scintillating letter from Jill Young. What a great sense of humour. On the serious side, Jill makes a good point that Ottawa garbage doesn’t end up in the oceans. If there are eight million tons of […]

Conservation officials in New York are hoping to locate an “exotic,” non-native species of the elk family that has reportedly been spotted in the central part of the state and may have potential to infect the native white-tailed deer population with a deadly disease. The  New York Department of Environmental Conservation has purportedly received multiple trail camera […]

No longer able to export as much waste, companies seek new solutions TOKYO — Japanese companies are pouring investment into plastic recycling facilities to handle the rise in bottles and used home electronics remaining in the country following China’s near-total ban on imports of plastic waste. Established businesses are joining the field. Suntory Holdings helped develop a technology that reduces […]

Picture this phrase: ”You can do it if you have the permission”. What does it bring to your mind? Something that parents would say to their little child or something written in the law-book? Unfortunately it’s both. Because today such an absurd application is found regarding legislation of use of personal data. I don’t know […]

As a political term, we might want to keep the circular economy in the present, but the practices that are part of it have long been part of human existence. Maikel Kuijpers explains. The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products […]

NamiGreen a local e-waste recycling company has vastly increased e-waste recycling rates in 2018, saying that this indicates that more and more Namibian companies are concerned about discarded electronica ending up on landfill sites. According to the company’s internal records, in 2018 more than 50,000 kg of e-waste were recycled, which is 52% more than […]

Heavy snowfalls brought chaos to parts of Germany and Sweden on Friday, leaving roads blocked, trains halted and schools shut. The Red Cross helped drivers stuck on a motorway in the southern German state of Bavaria and a nine-year-old boy was killed by a falling tree. The front of a Swiss hotel was hit by […]

THE volume of plastic waste in the city has reduced significantly by as much as 30 percent, according to the General Services Office. GSO Head Eugene Buyucan, in his report during the flag-raising ceremonies last Monday, January 7, said the estimate was based on the observations of personnel monitoring the garbage flow at the waste […]

Bob Keefe of Environmental Entrepreneurs argues the new US Congress needs to wake up fast to the economic crunch that awaits as climate impacts escalate Never mind record temperatures, flooding, wildfires and rising seas. Recent reports about the state of climate change send another warning about its impacts: It’s going to clobber our economy. From […]