This Act, divided into eighteen Parts, and consisting of 151 sections, provides for a modern legislative framework that ensures better protection, management and conservation of the environment. The Act defines the following relevant terms: accredited laboratory, to provide environmental data and conduct analyses of environmental samples; Central Water Authority; circular economy; climate change...

This Act, consisting of 55 articles and divided into nine Parts, provides for a regulatory framework in order to ensure the environmentally safe and sound management of solid and hazardous wastes and a sustainable waste management system through the adoption of a circular economy approach focusing on waste reduction, reuse, material recovery and recycling. The Act concerns: commercial waste; waste...

With the goal of safeguarding the fundamental rights to life, health, and enjoyment of a clean environment, measures are hereby established to reduce the production and consumption of single use plastics in the national territory, provisions set forth to permit their eventual substitution by sustainable alternatives as well as their reuse, and complementary measures further established.

The primary objective of any policy on waste should be to reduce to a minimum the negative effects of waste generation and management on human health and the environment. In equal measure and in accordance with the principles governing the circular economy, said policy should have as its objective the promotion of efficient use of resources, assuming a strategic position with the consensus of...

The Republic Act No. 11898, which amends Republic Act No. 9003, focuses on extended producer responsibility for plastic packaging waste in the Philippines. The Act aims to enhance waste management practices by holding producers accountable for the entire life cycle of their products, promoting waste reduction, recovery, and recycling. It establishes a national framework for extended producer...

The present law has as its object the protection of the environment and the reduction of waste, limiting delivery of single-use products to retail alimentary establishments, promoting reuse and certification of single-use plastics, and regulating expendable plastic bottles.

An Act to restrict the supply of plastic shopping bags, and for other purposes. This is a republication of the Plastic Shopping Bags Ban Act 2010 (repealed) (including any amendment made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 (Editorial changes)). It also includes any commencement, amendment, repeal or expiry affecting this republished law to 1 July 2021.

These Regulations provide rules relative to waste management, transport and disposal. No person shall – (a) deposit, cause or allow waste to be deposited at a place other than a waste management facility or any other site approved for that purpose; (b) throw, drop or otherwise deposit or cause any littering in any street, road, drain, river or other public place other than a space or bin specially...