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Greenpeace Global Review 2021: 50-Year Green Initiatives for Better Future
Pandemic and uncertainty have swept the world throughout the year 2021, yet Greenpeace has spared no seconds holding back its move in adverse conditions. Experience of this turbulent year shows…
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Shocking field investigation findings: messy brownfields scattered with high mountains of waste
Electronic waste is an elephant in the room – it occupies lands, its heavy metal pollutes the environment and loads the landfills. Though countless problems have been revealed and feature media coverage are seen from time to time, the issue persists. Why is it so? Could we do anything about it? Greenpeace decided there were…
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Hike for Health, Leave No Trace – Greenpeace & hikers clean up Tai Mo Shan together
Hiking has become the weekend ritual for a lot of Hong Kongers since the coronavirus pandemic turned our daily lives to mostly home-based. Despite being a precious breathing space for…
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With poor oversight, China’s industrial parks no match for illegal wastewater dumping
Beijing, 21 May 2019 - With rampant illegal dumping, 18 out of 20 state-investigated Chinese provinces suffer from a severe lack of oversight in the industrial parks that were set up to tighten up wastewater management, which undercuts nationwide efforts to control pollution and runoff, problems that are exacerbated by an insufficient criteria framework and…
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Data from the global plastics waste trade 2016-2018 and the offshore impact of China’s foreign waste import ban
An analysis of import-export data from the top 21 exporters and 21 importers .
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Cash-strapped cities in China greenlight toxic land for development despite pollution: data
Beijing, 23 April 2019 - Chinese cities transfer polluted land sites on quick turnarounds that imperil proper clean-up and treatment, as many municipal governments depend on transfer fees for revenue, and in all made 104.9 billion RMB ($15.6 billion USD) in revenue from the sale of land plots, many former chemical plants, that were identified…
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China’s e-waste worth $23.8 billion by 2030
Beijing, 22 March 2019 - The value of metals discarded as electronic waste in China will total $23.8 billion USD by 2030, a sum that can be reclaimed through recycling and "urban mining" at cheaper costs than retrieving the same amount of metals through virgin ore mining, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia.
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China’s ban on imports of 24 types of waste is a wake up call to the world – Greenpeace
Beijing, 29 December 2017 - China’s upcoming ban on the import of 24 types of waste will send a wake up call to waste exporting countries and increase pressure to find more sustainable ways to dispose of and recycle waste, as well as tackle the issue at source by reducing the production of plastics and…
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Rethinking IT: Saving the world, one gadget at a time.
Tech companies are purposely making our devices difficult to repair, creating millions of tonnes of unnecessary e-waste every year. But these campaigners are fighting back. Kyle Wiens from iFixit and Lou Bin from ZEALERfix visited Greenpeace in Beijing to discuss how they’re rethinking the whole concept of IT consumption.
