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Tag: Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

EMB to watch LGUs’ solid waste disposal

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)—through the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB)—has expanded its Integrated Information System (IIS) that records the amount of...

Villar seeks wider waste producer responsibility

Senator Cynthia Villar has sponsored a bill pushing for extended producer responsibility on wastes. Villar, who chairs the Senate Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and...

City’s garbage problem solved

Dagupan City—After barely a year, the city government here has cleared more than half of the city’s decades-old mountains of garbage occupying a four-hectare...

Ordinances urged for waste segregation

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources is urging local government units to pass ordinances directing barangays to implement waste segregation at the source. Undersecretary...

Youth councilor pushes trash bins for masks, PPEs

Caloocan City Councilor Orvince Howard A. Hernandez has urged barangay officials to up the ante in their efforts to prevent community spread of COVID-19...

PH needs more sanitary landfills, DENR exec says

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A circular-economy mindset

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‘Don’t let people turn graveyards into dumps’

Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu on Sunday reminded local government units of their duty to enforce the solid waste management law in memorial parks and...

Ombudsman to probe 600 officials for illegal dumps 

ABOUT 600 mayors, vice mayors and councilors in 13 administrative regions are in trouble for illegal dump sites. The Office of the Ombudsman will investigate...
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