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DoH to Ban Mercy Importation |
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February 22, 2010 6-point agenda to a mercury-free Philippines presented Manila – Following movements to ban mercury globally, the PhilippineDepartment of Health on Friday said that it will ask for the banningon importation of mercury products in the country. Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral in a meeting with environmental health group, Health Care Without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA) identified other measures to ensure that the public will be safe from mercury. |
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Proceedings of the Philippine Symposium on Sustainable Sanitation 2009 |
 The Center for Advanced Philippine Studies (CAPS) recently published the Proceedings of the Philippine Symposium on Sustainable Sanitation 2009. Click here to view or download a copy. |
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Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities |
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We are pleased to announce the pre-publication viewing of UN-Habitat's Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities, of which SWAPP was one of the contributors for the city profiles.
Please download here (SWAPP membership required).
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UEM e-Newsletter December 2009 |
UEM e-Newsletter (December 2009 Issue)
Please download here. |
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 Issue #18, September 2009
On this issue:
• GTZ-AHT, DED, Philippine Partners Share Experiences at Waste Safe 2009 Conference in Bangladesh
• Eastern Visayas Regional Ecology Center (REC-8) Conducts Solid Waste Management Summit 2009
• Scaling-up promotion of urine diverting dehydration toilet (UDDT): The case of the WAND Foundation experience in Misamis Oriental
• Ongoing landfill managers and decision makers from the Philippines visit Germany
For the online version, please click here.
You may also download the pdf version here.
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[Original article from Down to Earth Online Magazine]
Waste-pickers worldwide gathered in Colombia to highlight how central they are to urban existence
 Sometime in 2007, history was unmade and made. From being a global
village, the world became an urban conglomerate: for the first time
since life on earth began, more people on the planet lived in urban
settlements than in rural ones. This shift in human habitation
behaviour amplifies many microtrends. Informal sector recycling is one.
In several larger urban settlements, many of the poor are quite likely
to earn their livelihoods through waste: handling waste, waste-picking,
waste-sorting, repairing discarded items, perhaps even waste trading.
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SWAPP Implements Ecosavers Program in Four Public Schools in GMA, Cavite |
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The Solid Waste Management Association of the Philippines (SWAPP) recently was awarded a grant by Coca-Cola Foundation to implement an ecosavers program in four public schools in General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite. The duration of the project is from December 2009 to December 2010. The Coca-Cola Company and its philanthropic arm, the Coca-Cola Foundation, aim to make a greater impact on the communities they serve around the world by being responsive to the citizenship priorities where they live and work. |
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