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CSR Asia and Southern Weekend (aka Nanfang Zhoumo) deserve ample praise for an insightful recent post addressing “Greenwashing in China,”  available here.

The post especially resonated with your’s truly, as it echoes much of what I attempted to convey in the “Dirty Side of China’s Clean Growth.” In particular the last point, referenced here:

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China’s leading waste-to-energy developer, China Everbright, has received more than US$200 million vis-a-vis Asian Development Bank’s commitment to funding companies with above average environmental goals. It’s a great idea on paper. However, flaccid environmental reporting standards in China and worrying trends in the incineration sector reveal a moral hazard in international institutions’ move to capitalize the private sector. Growing segments of China’s population are beginning to demand transparency and accountability from China’s cleantech sector. Will principled organizations like the Asian Development Bank follow their example?

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Some of the latest news from the wide world of waste: 9 – 22 February 2012

CHINA

• Insurance Auto Auctions Paves the Way for Recycling US Salvage Vehicles in China

• China Issues New Electronics Industry Environmental Guidelines

• Chinese Waste-to-Energy Investors to Enter Lagos Market

• Difficult but Necessary: China’s Experience Exploring Biofuel

• Reverse Vending Machines Turn Cans into Cash
  

US

• LA’s Trash Industry Gets Ready to Rumble

• New York City Makes It Easier to Reuse Old Rags

• Hudson Clean Energy Takes Minority Stake in GSE Investment Corporation
  

• Plastics Recycling Rates Rise Significantly in the US

• The Business of Garbage and Recycling

• Mardi Gras Beads Cause Environmental Hangover

INTERNATIONAL

• Bed of China to Encourage Oysters in Dubai

• Africa: Domestic Consumption is Main Contributor to Growing E-Waste

• Jakarta Port Officials Seize 113 Containers of Illegal Hazardous Waste

• Fungus that Eats Plastic

• Rapid Food Waste Fermentation Developed at German University

China’s leading waste-to-energy developer, China Everbright, has received more than US$200 million vis-a-vis Asian Development Bank’s commitment to funding companies with above average environmental goals. It’s a great idea on paper. However, flaccid environmental reporting standards in China and worrying trends in the incineration sector reveal a moral hazard in international institutions’ move to capitalize the private sector. Growing segments of China’s population are beginning to demand transparency and accountability from China’s cleantech sector. Will principled organizations like the Asian Development Bank follow their example?

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Some of the latest news from the wide world of waste: 26 January – 8 February 2012

CHINA

• New Year Fireworks Spree Leaves Thousands of Tonnes of Garbage in Beijing, Shanghai

• China To Promote Reduced Paper Use, Recycled Paper

• Converting Food Waste Is Not A Rubbish Idea

• “Shanghai Swap Shop” Proves One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Treasure

• How the Rise of the Megacity Is Changing the Way We Live

US

• Green Facts about New York’s New One World Trade Center

• Waste Management of Arizona Driving Arizona State University’s Roadmap to Zero Waste

• Permanent E-Waste Dropoff Site Opening in Gowanus, NYC

• Fort Wayne, IN Recycling Goal Now Going to 80%

• Companies Try to Recycle All Waste, Send Nothing to Landfills

• Should Plastic Bags Be Banned?

INTERNATIONAL

• Tax on Plastic Bags Sends Prices Soaring in Saigon, Vietnam

• India Lays Down E-Waste Management Rules

• Can Hong Kong Solve Its Garbage Crisis?

• UK Retailers Fail to Meet Food and Packaging Waste Pledges

• Philippine Court Orders Massive Dump Site Closure