AS our society continuously progress through modernization, our world is facing a multitude of environmental challenges that include climate change, soil and forest degradation and pollution, among other issues. It is incumbent upon us to take steps towards protecting and preserving our environment for the generations to come.
The global community, in recent years, has become more aware of the consequences of environmental degradation and waste mismanagement. The Philippines has been making strides towards enacting pro-environment programs. NGO’s, LGU’s and the national government’s current environmental initiatives, focusing on resiliency and adaptation to the “new normal” of climate change have made significant headway in addressing these issues.
One of the most effective ways to preserve the environment is through proper waste management. Efficient waste management programs can influence positive changes in the environment and contribute to ecological sustainability towards a better future for our children and our planet.
By reducing our overall consumption and by reusing and recycling our resources, we can ensure that we safeguard our environment. In doing so, we contribute to the government’s programs and even support our local communities’ initiatives that promote environmental protection and preservation.
The process of implementing the 3R’s – Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle – can practically go a long way in protecting our environment and natural resources specially our water ways.
Our personal commitment to implement 3R’s has led to the establishment of Project Luntian Cavite and Akbay Kalikasan. Along with five of our neighbors at Barangay Pasong Kawayan 2 in General Trias, Cavite we organized said group in April of 2018 with the main purpose of educating the people in our community the proper ways to handle and dispose household wastes.
From this small membership, we grew to over 500 active member volunteers who are seriously exerting efforts to care for the environment. In Inspiring our community, it has resulted to the extension or our advocacy on the 3R’s IEC program in the entire Cavite province with the help of the CENRO’s -MENRO’s of the LGUs.
Our goal is to promote and implement the 3R’s under Republic Act 9003 or the “Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000” that was enacted during the term of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA).
We adhere to the provisions of the said legislation to ensure the protection of public health and environment; utilize environmentally-sound methods that maximize the utilization of valuable resources and encourage resource conservation and recovery; set guidelines and targets for solid waste avoidance and volume reduction through source reduction and waste minimization measures, including composting, recycling, re-use, recovery, green charcoal process, and others, before collection, treatment and disposal in appropriate and environmentally sound solid waste management facilities in accordance with ecologically sustainable development principles; and to ensure the proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid waste through the formulation and adoption of the best environmental practice in ecological waste management excluding incineration, among others.
Akbay Kalikasan/Project Luntian Cavite recently collaborated with Tropang Sigla and Tropang Waray for the water ways clean line up in Pasong Kawayan II under Barangay Punong Bayan, Mario Amante, who is heavily supporting our cause in protecting the environment. (UnliNews Online)
