The project has the following goals:
Goal 1:
Eliminate single-use plastics - involves the application of interconnected policy approaches to reduce the health, environmental, and economic costs of plastic pollution, through the reduction of specific types of single-use plastics in target sectors and representative cities.
Goal 2:
Overcome corporate-led barriers to plastic reduction. Push back against corporate-led tactics such as corporate greenwashing, BAU approaches, incineration and co-incineration of plastics, and schemes such as plastic credit programs that inhibit efforts to reduce plastic production, use and disposal.
Goal 3:
Institutionalize reuse. A two- pronged approach to institutionalize reuse: 1) Adoption of reuse and refills as a natural result of banning SUPs in target sectors, and; 2) Adoption of reuse and refill systems even in the absence of policy for specific private sector players (retailers, community markets, schools and universities, innovators and players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem) in target cities.
Implementation Duration:
October 2023 to September 2024 (Year 1). Will continue up to Year 3.
Implementing Partners:
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (as organizational lead), together with other member organizations of Ecowaste Coalition.
According to Aileen Lucero, National Coordinator of the EcoWaste Coalition, “the birth of this movement mirrors the increasing global concern against worsening plastic pollution and the urgency to stem the tide to prevent our Mother Earth from further drowning in plastics.”
Additionally, EcoWaste Coalition frequently joins international talks, including participation at the INC-4, and creates or joins in public campaigns on plastic pollution and marine plastic, as well as campaigns of its member organizations that involve hazardous chemicals, such as mercury waste. Sometimes this involves calling out private sector initiatives as “greenwashing.”
EcoWaste Coalition was a partner in a 3-year GEF-funded project together with UNIDO and DENR called the “Safe PCB and E-waste Management Project”. This project is aiming to protect the environment from toxic chemicals coming from e-wastes. In 2020, this project launched its first treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facility for e-wastes in Barangay 176 of Bagong Silang, Caloocan.
Implementing Partners:
UNIDO, DENR
EcoWaste Coalition is a coalition of NGOs, People’s Organizations, Academic Institutions, and other civil society groups (currently listed at 145 members in their website) that started in 2000 during the passage of RA 9003 (Ecological Solid Waste Management Act). It currently has a seat at the National Solid Waste Management Commission, which is a multisectoral body chaired by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, as one representative of “non government organizations.”
The project has the following goals:
Goal 1:
Eliminate single-use plastics - involves the application of interconnected policy approaches to reduce the health, environmental, and economic costs of plastic pollution, through the reduction of specific types of single-use plastics in target sectors and representative cities.
Goal 2:
Overcome corporate-led barriers to plastic reduction. Push back against corporate-led tactics such as corporate greenwashing, BAU approaches, incineration and co-incineration of plastics, and schemes such as plastic credit programs that inhibit efforts to reduce plastic production, use and disposal.
Goal 3:
Institutionalize reuse. A two- pronged approach to institutionalize reuse: 1) Adoption of reuse and refills as a natural result of banning SUPs in target sectors, and; 2) Adoption of reuse and refill systems even in the absence of policy for specific private sector players (retailers, community markets, schools and universities, innovators and players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem) in target cities.
Implementation Duration:
October 2023 to September 2024 (Year 1). Will continue up to Year 3.
Implementing Partners:
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (as organizational lead), together with other member organizations of Ecowaste Coalition.
According to Aileen Lucero, National Coordinator of the EcoWaste Coalition, “the birth of this movement mirrors the increasing global concern against worsening plastic pollution and the urgency to stem the tide to prevent our Mother Earth from further drowning in plastics.”
Additionally, EcoWaste Coalition frequently joins international talks, including participation at the INC-4, and creates or joins in public campaigns on plastic pollution and marine plastic, as well as campaigns of its member organizations that involve hazardous chemicals, such as mercury waste. Sometimes this involves calling out private sector initiatives as “greenwashing.”
EcoWaste Coalition was a partner in a 3-year GEF-funded project together with UNIDO and DENR called the “Safe PCB and E-waste Management Project”. This project is aiming to protect the environment from toxic chemicals coming from e-wastes. In 2020, this project launched its first treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facility for e-wastes in Barangay 176 of Bagong Silang, Caloocan.
Implementing Partners:
UNIDO, DENR
Alliances & Coalitions
EcoWaste Coalition is a coalition of NGOs, People’s Organizations, Academic Institutions, and other civil society groups (currently listed at 145 members in their website) that started in 2000 during the passage of RA 9003 (Ecological Solid Waste Management Act). It currently has a seat at the National Solid Waste Management Commission, which is a multisectoral body chaired by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, as one representative of “non government organizations.”
