CAVITE – Local government units (LGUs) have launched recycling initiatives to give campaign materials a second life following the midterm elections. In Bacoor City, 39,654 pieces or 5,549 kilos of tarpaulins have been collected by the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO),...
The camps of three national candidates whose huge campaign posters hang along the southbound lane of North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) have been advised to take down their materials within three days. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Garcia said Friday, Feb. 28, that the poll body...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is studying the possibility of disqualifying candidates who will fail to make use of biodegradable materials in their campaign activities. This was according to Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia, who recently wrote to the Comelec En Banc regarding the...
SAN JOSE CITY, Nueva Ecija – The Commission on Elections on Friday, October 20, started removing illegal barangay election campaign materials posted across this province under “Oplan: Baklas.” Police provided security during the operation. POLICE assist the Comelec in removing illegally...
A Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) official urged the public on Tuesday, May 17, to immediately report to authorities campaign materials that are still displayed in public places. DILG Undersecretary Epimaco Densing III said the deadline for the removal of the campaign...
DAVAO CITY – Davao City-based environmental group Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS) called on local candidates to collect and dispose of their campaign paraphernalia properly. IDIS executive director Atty. Mark Peñalver said in a statement on Wednesday that almost a...
ILOILO CITY – At least 2,900 kilograms of campaign materials were collected in the province of Iloilo which started a massive clean-up all over the province almost a week after the May 9 national and local elections. Re-elected Mayor Niel “Bongbong” Tupas III of Barotac Viejo town, Iloilo...
A truck full of campaign materials will be turned over to the town’s recycling facilities. Mayor-elect Jeri Mae Calderon, in her Facebook page, announced that the campaign materials such as posters and banners, all made of tarpaulins, will be brought to the sorting and recycling facilities for...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has urged candidates to continue helping in the removal and recycling of campaign materials. A personnel of the Marikina City Environmental Management Office segregates collected campaign materials at the Material Recovery Facility in Marikina City on May 11,...
What comes after the election is trash, literally. In an Opinion piece by the Manila Bulletin , it is reported that 59,846 tons of solid waste per day were generated around the country, according to the DENR-Environmental Management Bureau (EMB). That’s prior to the 2022 election’s campaign...
The City Environmental and Management Office (CEMO) in Marikina City started its clean-up drive to remove all election paraphernalia plastered all over the city on Tuesday, May 10. (Photo courtesy of Noel B. Pabalate / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview with DZBB, Marikina Mayor Marcelino "Marcy"...
Winning and losing candidates in the May 9 elections and the local government units (LGUs) must remove the campaign materials properly within three days, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año stressed Wednesday, May 11. In an advisory to the local chief...
