As the Philippines observes National Zero Waste Month this January, Senator Loren Legarda stood firm in her call for a stronger national resolve to confront the country’s mounting waste crisis, ...

CALAMBA CITY, Laguna―The Department of Natural Resources (DENR) reiterated its push for a circular economy to strengthen waste management ...

Delfingen Industry SA (FR:ALDEL) has released an update. Delfingen Foundation has partnered with Plastic Odyssey to combat plastic pollution by installing two micro-factories in the Philippines, ...

HARDLY seen by the Filipino masses in their daily lives is the continuing threat of microplastics and plastics, with a ...

In April Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte took a characteristically drastic step. He closed Boracay. It is an indication of the environmental threat from marine pollution. Can the private sector ...

Senior leaders from the Philippine government, international development agencies, multinational companies, and civil society have signaled a renewed push to curb plastic pollution and accelerate the ...

DENR-EMB Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement Division Chief Corazon Gasapos emphasized that a circular economy shifts the traditional “take–make–dispose” model into a more sustainable system ...

Several locations around the world are inundated with polluted water and the situation in these hot spots may only get worse in the coming years. This water pollution mainly comes from the leakage of ...

A new study explores waste management systems and reveals that achieving zero waste leakage by 2030 is unlikely, potentially jeopardizing related Sustainable Development Goals. The authors emphasize ...

If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year, some 170 countries will finalize the world’s first legally binding treaty to curtail plastic pollution. Its success will depend in no small part ...

We like to think that tossing a plastic bottle into a recycling bin means we’ve done our part, but the […] ...