Opinion: Are we ready for the system shift to a Circular Economy?

pracks

By Pracksidis Wandera  Recently, the push for governments, civil societies, the private sector among other stakeholders to adopt circular business mod...

Read More

World Youth Skills Day: How KEPSA’s Project is Enhancing Acquisition of Waste Management Skills

Naftal Kobags, Roadside Self Help Group in Tudor Ward, Mombasa County and a Beneficiary of the KEPSA COAST 1 Project

The Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) has been spearheading efforts that are geared towards enhancing youth skills across the country and beyond; ...

Read More

A circular economy requires community, and communities are built through storytelling

Scattered English letters with STORY word on black plastic background

By Phil Rosen June 25, 2021 In the apparel business, steps taken to optimize the customer experience don’t always align with the planet’s best ...

Read More

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is going to change how we live

WhatsApp Image 2021-06-10 at 10.27.41 AM

By Karin Boomsma During a recent webinar to sensitise the private sector on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations, a senior official ...

Read More

Major food brands launch fund for bag, pouch recycling

Flexible Plastic

By Cecilia Keating June 7, 2021 Flexible plastic is notoriously difficult to recycle. Courtesy of Flexible Plastic Fund Close Authorship ...

Read More

Settling the score on reusable vs. recyclable cups

event-trash2

Landfill-bound trash at a music festival in New Jersey, summer of 2019. Courtesy Effect Marketing. There’s good news and bad news when it comes to bev...

Read More

World Environment Day: Threat of Global Environmental Ruin is Real

The Standard Newspaper - June 5th - Page 35 (WED)

Sometime in 2013, KTN News Anchors did something different and beautiful. They wore black armbands emblazoned, “Hands off our Elephants”. ...

Read More

Kenya is in Transition to a Circular Economy

CE Trend Report Cover

A quick scan of the trends & opportunities for businesses in the circular economy and resource efficiency space. The report provides an overview o...

Read More

On sustainability, think about trees and water pipes

Clock

THURSDAY MAY 13 2021 By KARIN BOOMSMA Circular economy and sustainability are buzzwords synonymous with globetrotting NGO executives and professors wh...

Read More

Kenya setting up emissions trading market, says Ukur Yatani

Ukur Ytani

TUESDAY MAY 11 2021 Kenya aims to set up an emissions trading system that will allow companies and other bodies to buy emissions allowances, Treasury ...

Read More