Environment Secretary Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga is pushing for the integration of the informal waste sector into the EPR system for plastic packaging waste to ensure that no one is left behind as the country transitions toward circular economy.
Environment Secretary Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga is pushing for the integration of the informal waste sector into the expanded producer responsibility system for plastic packaging waste to ensure that no one is left behind as the country transitions toward circular economy.
Yulo-Loyzaga underscored the significant role of the sector in waste collection and management, and the potential contribution they could bring being the “backbone of the currently limited collection services and partly of recycling” in the country. Yulo-Loyzaga said the DENR has put focus on upcycling, envisioning that this will enable public and private investments in waste recovery, reuse, recycling as well as manufacturing and production using secondary raw materials.
The EPR law serves as the environmental policy approach and practice that requires producers to be environmentally responsible throughout the life cycle of a product, especially its post-consumer or end-of-life stage. DENR Undersecretary for Planning, Policy and International Affairs Jonas Leones, and DENR Assistant Secretary for Field Operations-Luzon and Visayas, and Concurrent Environmental Management Bureau Director Gilbert Gonzales facilitated the discussions.
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