Solidarity and good partnership bring DENR, UNIDO, and PLDT/Smart together to bridge the digital divide in distance education by providing schools with School-in-a-Bag (SIAB) and #LearnSmartKit in exchange for collected electronic and electrical wastes from a Barangay in Quezon City. The digital tools contain a pocket Wi-FI, a laptop and tablets with learning contents and interactive applications.
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The Project, Implementation of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Management Programs for Electric Cooperatives and Safe e-wastes Management (PCB-WEEE), forged a partnership with PLDT and Smart Communications for its “E-waste to E-learn†initiative, which seeks to bridge the digital divide in distance education in the Philippines by providing schools with digital tools in exchange for their collected and surrendered electronic and electrical wastes.
The Ambitious City Promises (ACP) Project aims to
contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation targets
through mitigation plans and activities, which is referred
to by the Project as “City Promise.†One of the key
accomplishments of the ACP Project is the establishment
of a platform for proposing and collecting pledges for the
development of the City Promise. As the project’s model
city in the Philippines, the City of Pasig launched the
Pasig EcoPledge Platform (www.pasigEcoPledge.org),
which is an online platform that aims to inform and
Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (MMPL) provides different ecosystem goods and services, such as water supply, to more than 172,000 residents surrounding it, for household use, as well as to farms and plantations for crop irrigation. There are three (3) major watersheds inside MMPL wherein the LGU-managed water works in Brookes Point, Palawan relies for water sources.
The DENR Administrative Order No. 2001-34 or the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 requires every materials recovery facility (MRF) in the country to keep and maintain a record of daily weights or volumes of waste received, processed, and removed from the site.