SHIBUSHI, Japan — Billions of soiled diapers are buried or incinerated every year in Japan — with seniors outpacing babies — but a recycling breakthrough is giving them a new lease on life, tackling one messy challenge…
Call it a Renaissance in recycling.…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Like many modern cities around the world, Lapu-Lapu City is facing a serious plastic waste problem. While individual efforts to manage plastic waste help, they can only go so far. The reality is…
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Tagbilaran City Mayor Jane Yap wants all buntings, that would be used in the celebration of city’s annual feast on May 1, to be donated to the city’s Upcycling and Livelihood Center for…
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — Single use plastic bags, food wrappers, and tarpaulins that we no longer need can still be converted into something useful. And the beneficiaries of the livelihood program for the out-of-school youth in Tagbilaran…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A community-based group from Mandaue City is taking on the solid-waste management implementation at the Carbon Market Complex in Cebu City through a partnership with the vendors there. Members of Lambo Carbon, a…
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — Japanese Consul General Toshihide Kawasaki on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, visited the Mandaue Green Learning Park in Barangay Umapad, which is a former dumpsite. Kawasaki said the purpose of his visit is to…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Restaurants in Cebu City would soon have a way to deal with its food wastes while helping the city’s less privileged citizens and the farmers in the mountain barangays. Cebu City Councilor Alvin…
SM Supermalls encourages shoppers to reduce waste and earn money at the same time with its Trash to Cash program. “Trash to Cash” is SM’s open-to-all recycling market held every first Friday and Saturday of the month…
Imagine if 4,000 tons of used lead acid batteries (ULABs) were disposed indiscriminately in our waterways over the last 10 years. The lead content in these batteries would have leaked into our rivers and poisoned animals. Worse,…
MANDAUE City will be grouping their 27 barangays into five clusters and will designate a materials recovery facility (MRF) in every cluster in compliance with the Solid Waste Management Act. Mandaue City Mayor Luigi Quisumbing said only…
Conscious of the fact that education is key to awareness and action to protect our dying Earth and the guaranteed rights of our people to a “balanced and healthful ecology”, a law, Republic Act No. 9512, known…
