Going green goes beyond throwing rubbish in the right recycling bins. It entails making a conscious effort to establish small habits to be eco-friendly, which are the building blocks of a sustainable planet. Seemingly mundane changes in our consumption, like opting for reusable water bottles...
A global report published by the United Nations in 2024 reveals electronic waste generation is rising five times faster than it’s being recycled, highlighting the need for humans to adopt sustainability with a heightened sense of urgency. In 2022, the Philippines produced 537 million kg of...
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SM Prime), one of the leading integrated property developers in Southeast Asia, brings all its property groups and stakeholders toward its program, SM Waste-Free Future, on a unified waste management and segregation campaign in response to the growing global crisis on...
I am writing this column in Bonn, Germany, following the global observance event conclusion of the 2024 United Nations Desertification and Drought Day. I had the honor of being invited to this event and was formally designated as one of 10 “Land Heroes” — young leaders under 35 who are...
Transitioning toward renewable energy (RE) and away from fossil fuels, the largest contributor to climate change, may be the greatest gift we can offer the planet during and beyond Philippine Environment Month. A study published in the journal Earth System Science Data revealed that emissions from...
In an industrial suburb of Montreal, sheets of copper move along a conveyor belt suspended four stories above the floor of a foundry — a metals plant — until they drop into a lava-hot furnace. Next come pieces of discarded copper wire. Out of the furnace comes liquid copper, alight with...
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed the Philippine eagle, the country's national bird, as critically endangered, with only around 400 pairs left in the wild. These forest raptors face extinction largely due to habitat loss from deforestation, hunting, and other human...
Waste workers urged lawmakers on June 11, 2024, at UP Diliman, to pass a bill institutionalizing the sector’s right to just labor conditions. The Magna Carta of Waste Workers, Senate Bill No. 2636, was drafted by the Philippine National Waste Workers Alliance (PNWWA), a coalition of 12 waste...
SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SM Prime), one of the leading integrated property developers in Southeast Asia, embarks on a unified waste management and segregation campaign in response to the growing global crises on waste. In a united show of support, SM Prime brings all its property groups and...
As part of its commitment to the environment, SM Cares has partnered with the National University (NU) for a joint initiative aimed at promoting proper e-waste disposal practices and developing a sustainable system for the disposal, recycling, and management of electronic waste within the NU...
Mondelēz International is advancing its support for a circular economy in the Philippines by reducing packaging use, evolving designs, and improving diversion systems. The company has met its 2023 goal of collecting and diverting the equivalent volume of its post-consumer plastic packaging, in...
Food waste isn’t merely a socioeconomic issue but also an environmental problem. It consumes finite planetary resources, only to rot in landfills and emit methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. According to the UN Environment Programme Food Waste Index Report in 2024,...
