produce to the consumers of their products, and the responsibility for clean-up of their The data in this report was gathered through packaging to governments1; and 3) reinforce the the waste assessment and brand audit (WABA) need for corporations to accept liability for the tool developed by the NGO Mother Earth full life-cycle impacts of their products and the Foundation (MEF), a group implement. [...] These figures show that the sheer volume of residual waste generated daily is beyond the Several case studies of Zero Waste Cities capacity of barangays, cities and municipalities project sites in the Philippines featured in this to manage: the problem is the huge amount report show how WABA data was used in waste of single-use plastics being produced, not the and resource management planning to:. [...] in Nueva Vizcaya, was used to estimate data from fifth and sixth class cities in the country First, the cities and municipalities of the because it is the sample with the closest barangay waste assessment sites were profile to the clustered cities. [...] 54.67% In the Philippines, with the absence of a national From the brand audits conducted, all data policy on plastics, some LGUs have put in place were compiled and ranked to produce a list ordinances that ban or regulate the use of plastic of companies identified as the sources of the bags which mostly covers plastic sando shopping most number of residual plastic waste found bags and the like. [...] After and woven bags for the purpose of carrying out the initial nine-month period, another six months goods from the point of sale.”43 were used to pilot the full implementation of the “no free plastic bag policy.” Plastic bags were Part of the the city’s success in implementing completely banned in the city after the phased the plastic regulation ordinance was its phased implementation of the or.
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