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‘Waste Wars’: A Conflict With No End in Sight

‘Waste Wars’: A Conflict With No End in Sight

In 2018, China made global headlines when it banned the importation of foreign plastic and electronic waste. This fleeting news item exposed one of the dirty secrets of the Western world’s trash – that much of our garbage is, in reality, shipped elsewhere, many times under the shield of “recycling,” a little-known fact until China’s […]

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    Fighting Poverty Can Also Fight Deforestation, New Study Finds

    Fighting Poverty Can Also Fight Deforestation, New Study Finds

    It may be surprising that a universal basic income would also help the environment, but that is exactly what a new study found. A government program to help poor, rural Indonesians through direct cash payments had the unexpected effect of reducing deforestation by 30 percent in participating villages, according to a new study, as Newsweek […]

    Indonesia Revokes Ending Legality License for Wood Exports

    Indonesia Revokes Ending Legality License for Wood Exports

    By Hans Nicholas Jong The Indonesian government has backed down from a decision to scrap its timber legality verification process for wood export, amid criticism from activists and the prospect of being shut out of the lucrative European market. On May 11, the Ministry of Trade issued a regulation revoking its decision from February to […]