The enactment of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act of 2022 is a good start but more transformational and progressive policies, programs, and business practices are needed to enable a circular economy for the Philippines.
Governments should create policies facilitating a microentrepreneur system that will accelerate the development of regenerative tourism in the country, Edna Carolina Lee, Co-convenor at Permaculture Society in the Philippines said this during the fifth episode of Klima Ug Kalikupan entitled “Regenerative Tourism: Mga Kahigayonan ug Mga Hagit sa Turismo sa Sugbo.”
To successfully end humanity’s toxic relationship with plastics, Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Ma. Adavieve Mella Lasam wrote in our column Eleventh Hour that there is a need to fundamentally change the way we depend on them, and the way we and the way we create, use, and dispose of them.
In our column Eleventh Hour at the Manila Bulletin, Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Dave Albao wrote about “Wala Usik” economy, a movement to innovate sari-sari stores and other establishments to be free of single-use plastics.
In the discussion of the circular economy in the Philippines, where are we headed?
Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Carlo Delantar answers this question in our Manila Bulletin column Eleventh Hour this week.
In this article, Carlo noted that the conversation on the circular economy in the Philippines is growing in momentum, adding that Filipinos have long been observing circular practices despite being unaware of the textbook and definitive label. But there is more to do and much more to achieve in mainstreaming restorative and regenerative practices in our economic system.
