Tacunan, Davao City – In Davao City, 50-60% of household waste is biodegradable, 20-30% is recyclable, which is why there’s a call to transform and recycle it sustainably. On October 1, 2020, the local government unit of Brgy Tacunan entered into a memorandum of understanding forging partnerships with Sustainable Davao Movement (SDM) represented by Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability – IDIS, championing its cause to address the increasing waste problem in the Barangay. SDM (Ecoteneo, Limadol, Break Free From Plastic, and Ecowaste Coalition aims for Brgy. Tacunan to be a model barangay for making zero waste possible, worthy of being replicated, if successful. Thus, both the Barangay as well as the SDM agreed to organize a system in the purok, creating strategic activities to envision a zero waste Tacunan. Urging its residents to view waste not as a useless problem but as something manageable and can be transformed into something useful.
Mintal, Davao City – Another barangay in Davao City has partnered with environmental groups to implement a Zero Waste Management project which will address the increasing waste concerns in the barangay. The project is entitled PHINLA which stands for Philippines, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, aims to empower the waste collectors in the barangay and address poor waste management concerns.
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