Environment and natural resources

Pollution and waste

Airline tax to help clean up Cambodia

The government is looking at ways to tackle Cambodia’s waste problem with a $1 charge on airline tickets touted to raise the cash. The move comes after footage emerged showing the capital’s canals remain clogged with rubbish a year after video of the pollution was shown ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38619/airline-tax-to-help-clean-up-cambodia/

River of waste

In a tributary in Phnom Penh’s Phum Prek Toal district that flows into Boeng Tompun, a mountain of plastic, garbage and waste has built up to the point where it stifles the water from flowing. Embattled residents who live next to the pile of waste ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38505/river-of-waste/

Team finds fish deaths due to lack of oxygen

Experts from the Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC) inspected Chinese-owned Rui Feng sugar company’s factory this week after suspicions that its runoff had caused last month’s mass fish deaths in Preah Vihear. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/team-finds-fish-deaths-due-lack-oxygen

Sugar plantation in Preah Vihear suspected in mass fish deaths

The Environment Ministry is studying water samples from Preah Vihear province to find out what has been killing thousands of fish in the Stung Sen River, where villagers are reportedly blaming a sugarcane plantation. ...

Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-plantation-in-preah-vihear-suspected-in-mass-fish-deaths-127243/

Capital still struggling with waste

Phnom Penh deputy governor Ieng Aunny yesterday acknowledged that the capital continues to struggle with waste management despite recent decentralisation measures, laying the blame with districts’ and communes’ lack of awareness of their new responsibilities, as well as what he characterised as contractor CINTRI’s ongoing ...

Kong Meta and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-still-struggling-waste

Floating villages to be relocated

Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities have outlined plans to relocate thousands of families living on the Tonle Sap river in an effort to curb water pollution.   ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36848/floating-villages-to-be-relocated/

Documentary reflects Cambodia’s battle with plastic

In celebration of World Water Day on Wednesday, the US embassy held the Cambodian premiere of the US documentary “A Plastic Ocean” – an award-winning documentary on the impact of plastic waste around the world – at Aeon Mall’s Major Cineplex.   ...

Mark Tilly
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36818/documentary-reflects-cambodia---s-battle-with-plastic/

Japan to help country go green

Japan has signed a three-year deal to help train government officials on attracting environmentally friendly investment. The Environment Ministry and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) yesterday signed the agreement to educate officials about how to use environmental impact assessments and enforce pollution controls. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36164/japan-to-help-country-go-green/

Neighbouring villages share dredging worries

Locals in Siem Reap province’s Kralanh district and Banteay Meanchey’s Preah Netr Preah district yesterday alleged that a sand-dredging company is polluting a river that straddles the two districts and stoking fears of bank collapse. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/neighbouring-villages-share-dredging-worries

Set of steps could cut carbon in half: report

Cambodia could reduce its projected carbon emissions by 57 percent over the next 30 years without taking a financial hit if it implements low-carbon development policies in five key sectors, according to a new report in the journal Energy Policy. ...

Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/set-steps-could-cut-carbon-half-report

Incinerator factory proposed

To safely dispose of hazardous medical waste, Japan-based Tesna Energy has proposed plans to build a factory in the Kingdom producing incineration machinery. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32510/incinerator-factory-proposed/

Drug factory found by students

Members of the Environment and Natural Resources Student Network, which is made up of students from six universities, found a factory processing an indigenous vine believed to be used in the production of narcotics in Koh Kong province last week.​ ...

May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32304/drug-factory-found-by-students/

Government considers a tax on carbon aviation

Cambodia is considering adopting an aviation tax for flights leaving the Kingdom, local media reported yesterday. The announcement came as Environment Minister Say Samal delivered remarks at the COP22 UN Climate Conference in Morocco. The conference comes one year after the historic signing of the Paris ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-considers-tax-carbon-aviation

Plastic bag reduction campaign underway

Eight markets in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap and Preah Sihanouk provinces have started trialing a campaign to reduce the number of plastic bags given to customers. Thol Buntha, a media relations officer for Italian-based NGO Fondazione ACRA, told Khmer Times that the markets, which include ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30917/plastic-bag-reduction-campaign-underway/

City aims to address market's trash problem

City Hall yesterday held a meeting with trash-collection companies and district authorities to address the longstanding garbage problem at the capital’s Phsar Doeum Kor Market in Tuol Kork district. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-aims-address-markets-trash-problem

Cintri says it is owed up to $20M by Phnom Penh residents

Phnom Penh’s much-maligned waste-collection firm Cintri yesterday used a meeting with City Hall to ask for help in collecting between $10 million and $20 million in unpaid fees it says it’s owed by residents in the capital. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cintri-says-it-owed-20m-phnom-penh-residents

Waste management challenge

A delegation of Cambodian officials told attendees at seminar at the Global Green Growth Institute’s Green Growth Week conference yesterday that waste management was the biggest environmental challenge facing Phnom Penh. The seminar heard examples from 10 countries – Cambodia, Columbia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Mongolia, the Philippines, ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29499/waste-management-challenge/

Plastic waste to be put to good use

A Japanese firm, Gomi Recycle 110, plans to invest in a factory in Svay Rieng province to recycle plastic waste into finished products for local markets. Yusuke Okumura, director of Gomi, met with Cambodia’s Minister of Environment Say Samal on Tuesday seeking support from the government ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27468/plastic-waste-to-be-put-to-good-use/

Kandal drinking water contaminated with fecal matter, study says

A study of drinking water sources in Kandal province found widespread contamination from human excrement, posing a health risk to residents that likely mirrors the situation across Cambodia, the authors say.   ...

Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kandal-drinking-water-contaminated-with-fecal-matter-study-115337/

Eco start-up: say no to plastics

A start-up initiative aimed at reducing plastic waste in the Kingdom is asking locals and expats to live plastic-free in July. The goal of the campaign is relatively simple: eliminate plastics’ harshest offenders from daily consumption. That means plastic straws, bags, bottles, cups and Styrofoam, or ...

Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27110/eco-start-up--say-no-to-plastics/

Fee proposed on plastic bags

The government has proposed slugging shoppers 500 riel for plastic bags in a bid to reduce environmental pollution. A draft prakas on plastic bags that would include the fee was reviewed yesterday in a Department of Environment workshop attended by government representatives along with mall and ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fee-proposed-plastic-bags

Millions given for waste management

The government has allocated $5 million across the Kingdom’s 46 sub-districts and towns to help with waste management by national and local institutions. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25476/millions-given-for-waste-management/

Sihanoukville authorities announce sewage crackdown

Sihanoukville officials have prioritised cracking down on businesses that allow sewage to drain into the sea, deputy governor Chhin Seng Nguon said yesterday.   ...

Igor Kossov and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-authorities-announce-sewage-crackdown

Factory agrees to stop poisoning neighbors

About 60 families in Battambang town gathered yesterday to demand that the owner of an ice-making factory stop releasing polluted water into the creek that runs through their neighborhood in Romchek village 5 as well as on their land. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22273/factory-agrees-to-stop-poisoning-neighbors/

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