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Del Birmingham

Hong Kong Will Phase Out Ivory Trade by 2021 | Smart News | Smithsonian - 0 views

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    On January 31, The Hong Kong Legislative Council voted 49 to 4 to phase out the sale of antique ivory. As Tiffany May at The New York Times reports, the city will ban all sale of ivory, new and antique, by 2021, closing a system that poachers have previously exploited. The move will help staunch a significant player in the ivory market, which drives the destruction of elephant populations. In recent years, the United Nations estimates that poachers kill up to 100 elephants each day, which has devastated their populations.
Del Birmingham

Ship Emissions Pollute Hong Kong Air · Environmental Management & Energy News... - 0 views

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    Marine vessel emissions cause up to half of Hong Kong's locally produced air pollution, CNN reports.
amandasjohnston

Gadget-hungry Asia tops global e-waste generation - SciDev.Net South-East Asia & Pacific - 0 views

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    Rising incomes and high demand for electric and electronic equipment (EEE) in East and South-East Asian countries have resulted in e-waste generation increasing by two thirds during 2010-2015, says a new study published by the United Nations University (UNU). The average increase in e-waste across 12 countries analysed - Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam - was over 60 per cent during the five-year period totalling 12.3 million tonnes.
Adriana Trujillo

Trending: Fashion Positive, H&M Launch New Tools, Tech to Accelerate Circular Fashion M... - 0 views

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    The fashion and textile industries continue to make strides towards circular models with the emergence of new resources and technologies that make a sustainable shift easier than ever before. The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute's Fashion Positive Initiative has unveiled a set of online resources designed to rapidly increase environmental and social outcomes in the fashion industry, while the H&M Foundation and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel have uncovered a new hydrothermal process that fully separates and recycles fabric blends that can then be reused directly without any quality loss.
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