Plastic packaging remains prevalent across the world. But with the ongoing plastic crisis and other environmental concerns, several countries and organizations are taking steps towards a plastic-free future. France recently announced that they will ban the use of plastic packaging in fruits...
Discarded plastic packagings, rubbers, and other debris continue to pile up in the coastal areas of Navotas City connected to Manila Bay despite the clean up and rehabilitation programs of the government. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Metro Manila Regional Executive...
Toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition on Tuesday, Oct. 5, expressed alarm over the "unrelenting sale" of plastic balloon blowing kits in Manila despite being flagged to have been containing a cancer-causing chemical. The group called on authorities to act on its concern after finding out during...
Less than a year before his term ends, President Duterte is being pressed by environment groups to act on their call to ban the use of single-use plastics as they assert "plastic pollution crisis should be addressed as urgently as the COVID-19 reponse." Environment groups EcoWaste Coalition, Break...
The Senate is set to begin plenary debates on the bill which would institutionalize the practice of extended producers responsibility (EPR) on their plastic packaging waste. (Photo from EcoWaste Coalition) Before the upper chamber adjourned sessions for a monthlong break Wednesday night, September...
H&M's latest move is a step toward a more circular business model E-commerce sites, food delivery apps, and online shopping apps have been essential in our daily lives during this pandemic time. It minimizes the need to go out as supplies, needs, and other purchases are delivered right at...
The pandemic has filled pages of traditional and online media, so much so that we couldn’t keep our eyes off the dire news of virus variants even though we want to. Once we log on to our social media accounts, COVID creeps up with updates on rising infections, warnings from fully occupied...
The advocacy group partners with Mondelez Philippines to spread the importance of plastic segregation and finding alternatives Plastic may have found its way in everything we use, one thing is for sure, it doesn't suit the ocean. Every year, countries produce million tons of plastic, 8 million of...
Plastic barriers in public utility vehicles (PUVs) are "useless" without physical distancing, a physician said Tuesday, Aug. 24. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview with TeleRadyo, Philippine College Physicians (PCP) President Dr. Maricar Limpin recommended getting rid of the plastic barriers...
• Plastic management is the main problem for single-use plastics because it does not decompose, causing havoc in other ecosystems • The Philippines produces 1.01 million metric tons of mismanaged plastics annually • Plastic, made of fossil fuels, emits a significant amount of greenhouse gases...
Photo from Chooks to Go Jumbo Plastic-Basilan finished off KCS-Mandaue, 83-65, to emerge as the first-ever champion of the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup Friday, Aug. 13 in Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur. Michael Mabulac and Jay Collado led the way as the Peace Riders swept the...
Photo from Chooks to Go Jumbo Plastic-Basilan moved on the cusp of capturing the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup crown after surviving KCS-Mandaue, 96-91, in Game 2 of their best-of-five title series Thursday, Aug. 12 in Pagadian City. The Peace Riders needed a late surge to hold off the...
