Recognizing the urgent need to address the pressing environmental challenges facing our planet, around 50 students from Palawan State University (PSU) pledged their unwavering commitment to creating a low-carbon, plastic-free, and climate-resilient university community
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.
In our column Eleventh Hour this week, Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Ian Soqueño wrote about why the newly enacted Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act should be a means toward the eventual ban on single-use plastics.
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 this week, we wrote about Bawal Plastikan, a crowdsourcing initiative that aims to create an interactive visual map that will provide users with information on the best practices and approaches that communities are doing against plastic pollution.
The sheer number of local ordinances on single-use plastics means that there is a clamor for a national law that will comprehensively and effectively address them, advocates said during the second episode of Klima Ug Kalikupan, a joint webcast series by Cebu Technological University (CTU) and The Climate Reality Project Philippines.
