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Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary Benny Antiporda has acknowledged the delays in the banning of items on the non-environmentally acceptable products (NEAP) list, but insisted that authorities were "doing their best".
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WASTE management has been simply dumped on the shoulders of local government units (LGUs) while they lack resources, resulting in the poor implementation of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, a Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) report said.
âCommunities are passive. Barangays are heavily dependent on cities and municipal governments,â Sonny N. Domingo, one of the authors of the report, said at a webinar on Thursday.
âBarangays are also given so much in terms of mandate and responsibility, but they are the least empowered in terms of capacity and resource.â
The report undertaken with Arvie Joy A. Manejar looked into the implementation of Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 through case studies.
SunStar Editorial: Restoring ecology in the pandemic
GREEN COMMITMENT. Governments should include in pandemic recovery plans and funds for restoring the ecology, a mindset that seems to be strikingly absent in the public discourse on how communities plot post-pandemic futures. (SunStar file)
+ June 06, 2021 Last June 5, World Environment Day, amongst the stream of images and posts on social media was Nena Jane Achacoso’s challenge to other citizens to plant six trees per month, “enough to compensate for the CO2 emissions we produce.”
Reflecting on a report uploaded on the Rainforest Action Network’s (RAN) website that “approximately 3.5 billion to 7 billion trees” are cut every year, the University of Philippines Cebu alumna and digital content producer said in a June 5 post on Facebook that planting and caring for six trees a month is her personal commitment to “plant the seed for a better tomorrow.”
CALOOCAN CITY, June 4 (PIA) — The 47th episode of “Stories for a Better Normal: Pandemic and Climate Pathways” series with the topic, “Uniting Against Single-Use Plastic” featured representatives from big civil society organizations advocating for the phase-out of.