The Leyte Provincial Board is set to summon representatives from the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources  and Cleanaway Philippines Inc., the firm ...

Cola has signed a memorandum of understanding to help bring clean water to remote communities in the Philippines, according ...

ANOTHER round of negotiations aimed at creating a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic waste is scheduled to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, next month, which will be the sixth round of ...

Nowhere is this issue more visible than in the Philippines, whose population of 114 million people across 7,641 islands produces over one-third of all oceanic plastic waste in the world, according ...

Waste management programme set in motion in Philippines’ Valenzuela City Manila: Officials in a Metro Manila suburb agreed to work together with Nestlé to address plastics pollution. Mayor ...

MANILA, Philippines—As solid waste management persists as a significant challenge in the Philippines, the government is prompted to explore waste-to-energy (WTE) initiatives as a dual strategy ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday called on the local government units (LGUs) to immediately address waste management issues in several provinces in Luzon and Visayas ...

The country has seen similar situations with disastrous consequences play out before. Nearly 25 years ago, the Philippines made international headlines when a landslide, caused by a huge municipal ...

Without considering the structural causes of flooding and the local environmental context, be it in Metro Manila or other parts of the Philippines, such projects are doomed to fail and may even ...

Electronic waste in the Philippines increased after the country generated 4.7 kilos per capita in 2022 from 3.9 kilos per capita in 2019, according to environmental group BAN Toxics.