Amid Cebu City’s lingering garbage disposal problem and repeated findings from the Commission on Audit  over weak solid waste management practices and the lack of operational materials recovery ...

A massive trash slide struck the Rizal Provincial Sanitary Landfill (RPSL) on February 20, 2026, in Barangay San Isidro, Rodriguez, Rizal, resulting in at ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is working on formally integrating informal waste workers in the government's solid waste management system. Informal ...

THE PHILIPPINES is seeking funding from the World Bank for a water, sanitation, and solid waste management project, the bank said. The Philippines Accelerated Water and Sanitation Project is targeted ...

The move comes at the heels of recent trash slides in the provinces of Rizal and Cebu, which have intensified scrutiny of the country’s landfill‑dependent waste system.

A P4-billion waste-to-energy project in New Clark City has received backing from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), a key step for what is deemed the country’s first ...

Solid waste management is a major issue for cities across the world. According to the World Bank’s recent report, What a Waste 2.0, waste is forecasted to increase by 70% by 2050. Waste generation is ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has ordered Green Leap Solid Waste Management Inc. to suspend operations following a trash slide that left three people ...

The fatal collapse of a garbage landfill in Cebu has also exposed lax enforcement and poor waste management A deadly garbage avalanche in central Philippines last week, which killed 19 and led to more ...