Despite the passage of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act (RA No. 9003), solid waste management remains a major challenge in the country due to improper waste disposal, inefficient waste collection, and the lack of disposal facilities. The waste generated per day in the Philippines has steadily increased from over 37,000 tons in 2012 to over 40,000 tons in 2016. 1 The rise in the country’s waste generation is due to the rapid population growth and developments in urban

TAGUIG CITY – This past September 2020, Nestlé Philippines Inc. recently announced that it had achieved plastic neutrality for the second month in a row as part of their goal for greener and more sustainable operations towards a waste-free future. Nestlé Philippines is the first multinational in the country to achieve plastic neutrality. “As an urgent initiative, Nestlé Philippines has succeeded in collecting and diverting from landfills and oceans the amount of plastic equiv