Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked — and may eventually be forced — to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest bid to make the city greener.
Recycle your school stuff and learn a thing or two about stewardship. This was the appeal of Fr. Conegundo Garganta, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’ (CBCP) Episcopal Commission on Youth, to students doing their last-minute preparations for Monday’s school opening.
Short on school chairs this coming school year? Why not make some out of trash? In Las Piñas City, a recycling plant can do just that. Inaugurated by the Villar Foundation on Friday, a factory in Barangay Ilaya is now turning plastic wastes into armchairs which will soon be distributed among campuses in Metro Manila.
Short on school chairs this coming school year? Why not make some out of trash? In Las Piñas City, a recycling plant can do just that. Inaugurated by the Villar Foundation on Friday, a factory in Barangay Ilaya is now turning plastic wastes into armchairs which will soon be distributed among campuses in Metro [...]
No shortcuts, please. With Fire Prevention Month coming up in March, toxics watchgroup EcoWaste Coalition yesterday reminded the public that while burning may be an easier and faster way to get rid of trash compared to recycling, it is dangerous and harmful, not just to people and their health but the environment as well.
On Sundays, residents queue at a collection and redemption center at the public market here. Their items for exchange? Bags full of plastic and paper refuse, as well as dried leaves, that they trade for school supplies, bars of soap, ecobags and umbrellas.
He still remembers his father telling him that one day, he will become the next biggest plastics manufacturer in the country.
THE Solid Waste Management Board in Cebu City is compelling waste recycling operators to clean up the White Road that leads to the Inayawan Landfill by October 17.
SM Supermalls’ Trash to Cash Recycling Market Day earned the support of Consolacion municipal government when the program was launched on July 6 at the Event Centre of SM City Consolacion.
Garbage disposal will no longer be a problem in Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island in Cebu. A P1.2-billion state-of-the-art facility for trash recycling and treatment will be put up in the 4-hectare city dump in Sitio Soong, Barangay Mactan, by yearend. It will convert garbage into pellets to fuel coal-fired power plants.
THE only state university in Negros Oriental held its 8th charter day celebration yesterday.
The recycling of plastic and other solid waste should be strongly considered as a sustainable way of keeping trash out of the waste stream and as a more productive option to an outright ban on plastic.
Consumers should have a choice between paper and plastic, and pay for it, the Solid Waste Management Association of the Philippines (SWAPP) said in a study.
