SENATOR Risa Hontiveros has called for a Senate investigation into the Philippines’ garbage management system after a ...

Lenny* recalled freezing when he saw the first heap of garbage collapse underneath the feet of his fellow scavengers on the ...

The Cebu City Solid Waste Management Board, led by Emma Ramas, has set what is said to be an “ambitious” target: to keep 85 percent of the city’s daily garbage out of landfills within just one year.

THE Iloilo City Government, under the leadership of Mayor Raisa Treñas, strengthened barangay solid waste management through Project Agubay (Awareness, Guidance ...

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is working with the World Bank Group and local government units for the ...

A catastrophic dumpsite collapse buried scavengers collecting recyclables at a landfill in the Philippines’ Rizal province on 20 February, following a similar incident in Cebu in January that killed ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is working on formally integrating informal waste workers in the government's solid waste management system. Informal ...

ORMOC CITY (PIA)—As ‘throwaway culture’ still exists among many communities, the circular economy offers a different path, one that circles back to sustainability, resilience, and economic opportunity ...

The Philippines has approved the development of the country’s first large‑scale waste-to-energy (WTE) facility in New Clark City in the province of Tarlac, following a series of landfill trash slides ...