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Philippines deploys river rangers in battle against plastic

By Cecil Morella | May 28, 2024 - 1:50pm

The Philippines produces about 61,000 tons of trash every day, up to 24% of it plastic, figures from the environment department...

Climate and Environment

Green groups ask SC to junk DENR order allowing Waste-to-Energy facilities

July 15, 2021 - 7:39pm

Coleen Salamat, an environmental advocate and a petitioner, said in a release that Waste to Energy facilities "are false solutions"...

Headlines

Solid waste management body urged to ban single-use plastic

July 14, 2020 - 10:11pm

"Single-use plastics should be on top of the list that the commission should have done 19 years ago.If the production and...

Headlines

Commentary: Evidence-based not reactive policies on waste management

By Vanessa Pepino | December 14, 2019 - 3:32pm

As governments and companies alike go to new depths in searching for solutions and alternatives, the policy discourse in the...

News Commentary

Commentary: The politics of waste and waste in politics

By Edwin Santiago | November 30, 2019 - 5:32pm

The alarm about looming environmental disasters has been sounded off a couple of decades ago. But, the discourse on the topic...

News Commentary

P2 per plastic sa merkado sa Kyusi

By Butch M. Quejada | April 23, 2018 - 12:00am

BUTI naman at muling nakalkal ang problema sa plastic waste pollution napag-usapan ito dahil hindi na biro ang masamang idinudulot nito sa Philippines my Philippines.

PSN Opinyon