Philippine waste - updates

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Farmers are business partners in this zero-waste café

Sep 28, 2019 - 1:30 PM

Sierreza – which has artisan stores in Los Baños and Maginhawa Street – has no set menu. It serves what farmers in partner communities plant.

DRIED and processed goods are available at Sierreza.

DILG orders 108 LGUs to explain absence of waste management plan

Feb 07, 2019 - 11:01 AM

'We don't want another case of Manila Bay,' says DILG Secretary Eduardo Año

DILG CHIEF. Interior Secretary Eduardo Ano says local govenrments should all have solid waste management plans as provided under the law. File photo by Darren Langit/Rappler

The problem with plastics: stopping it 'at the source'

Sep 15, 2018 - 11:30 AM

Brands need to give consumers options that encourage them to reuse, recycle, or return their plastic packaging instead of throwing them away after one use

Rubbish mostly plastics littering the shoreline of Freedom Island in Paranaque City polluting Manila Bay. Photo by Rhaydz Barcia/Rappler

Legarda scolds officials for 'promoting' waste-burning

Feb 02, 2015 - 8:43 PM

The National Solid Waste Management Commission admits to entertaining proposals from foreign firms to put up waste burning facilities despite a law banning these

To burn trash or not to? Debate in PH rages on

Nov 20, 2014 - 5:14 PM

Government agencies who want to lift the ban on waste incineration cite the growing problem of garbage management Environmentalists say there is no need for an expensive and possibly harmful technology

My New Year's resolution: Less garbage in the PH

Jan 02, 2014 - 7:00 AM

Personal New Year s resolutions to help reduce waste generated in your home or workplace ultimately helps the entire country

RISING GARBAGE PROBLEM. Unless Filipinos live less wasteful lifestyles, the government expects daily waste generation to rise this 2014

ADB, P&G explore building 'waste-to-energy' plant

Aug 31, 2012 - 3:19 PM

ADB P G explore feasibility of wase to energy plant in PH