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A total of 2,054,091 kilos of plastic were collected from Angeles City’s 33 barangays and redemption booths from January 2022 to April 30, 2023 through the Walang Plastikan — Plastik Palit Bigas project of the local government launched by Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr. Lazatin explained that these 2,054,091 kilos of plastic were exchanged into 2,054,091 […]
Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo Duterte has pressed for the passage of a measure that aims to regulate the manufacture, sale, use and importation of single-use plastics products, in line with his advocacy of building a greener and more sustainable economy for the country’s future generations. Benguet Rep. Eric Yap, Quezon City 2nd District Rep. […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is exploring a partnership with the country’s top conglomerates to create a plastic waste management action roadmap, as part of its commitment to regulate plastic packaging and reduce waste. This comes after representatives from the private sector were invited as panelists and shared their efforts toward achieving […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) urged cement makers to explore ways to utilize plastic waste as raw material to help reduce the country’s solid waste generation by at least 40 percent. “When all these cement plants will participate, we can dramatically reduce the volume of plastic waste which will be […]
The chairperson of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has backed the recent pronouncement of President Rodrigo Duterte on the possibility of a nationwide ban on the use of plastic. Senator Cynthia Villar said the possible plastic ban is urgent as she cited a 2015 report on plastic pollution by the international group Ocean […]
Senator Cynthia Villar conducted a hearing on the measures undertaken by the government and the private sector to reduce plastic wastes in the seas. Villar, chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, filed Proposed Senate Resolution No. 329, which seeks an inquiry on the measures to arrest the country’s prevalent plastic […]