Every year, the “average” Filipino uses 591 pieces of sachets, 174 shopping bags, and 163 plastic labo bags every year, making single-use disposable plastics “the greatest obstacle to sound waste and resource management,” according to a 2019 report by environmental organization Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA).
Here are three things you need to know about the ICC’s 2019 report.
The series of strong earthquakes that caused massive structural damages in Mindanao in October has prompted the government to order the strict enforcement of the National Building Code (NBC).
President Rodrigo Duterte has called coal plants “clean energy” and urged the private sector to invest more in these types of facilities.
President Rodrigo Duterte wants to “fast track” the cases of sick and elderly inmates or persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa. He believes, however, that those who have been behind bars for a long time prefer to stay in prison because they “have acquired latent homosexuality.”
