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Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities |
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We are pleased to announce the pre-publication viewing of UN-Habitat's Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities, of which SWAPP was one of the contributors for the city profiles.
Please download here (SWAPP membership required).
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UEM e-Newsletter December 2009 |
UEM e-Newsletter (December 2009 Issue)
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Issue #18, September 2009
On this issue:
• GTZ-AHT, DED, Philippine Partners Share Experiences at Waste Safe 2009 Conference in Bangladesh
• Eastern Visayas Regional Ecology Center (REC-8) Conducts Solid Waste Management Summit 2009
• Scaling-up promotion of urine diverting dehydration toilet (UDDT): The case of the WAND Foundation experience in Misamis Oriental
• Ongoing landfill managers and decision makers from the Philippines visit Germany
For the online version, please click here.
You may also download the pdf version here.
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[Original article from Down to Earth Online Magazine]
Waste-pickers worldwide gathered in Colombia to highlight how central they are to urban existence
Sometime in 2007, history was unmade and made. From being a global
village, the world became an urban conglomerate: for the first time
since life on earth began, more people on the planet lived in urban
settlements than in rural ones. This shift in human habitation
behaviour amplifies many microtrends. Informal sector recycling is one.
In several larger urban settlements, many of the poor are quite likely
to earn their livelihoods through waste: handling waste, waste-picking,
waste-sorting, repairing discarded items, perhaps even waste trading.
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SWAPP Implements Ecosavers Program in Four Public Schools in GMA, Cavite |
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The Solid Waste Management Association of the Philippines (SWAPP) recently was awarded a grant by Coca-Cola Foundation to implement an ecosavers program in four public schools in General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite. The duration of the project is from December 2009 to December 2010. The Coca-Cola Company and its philanthropic arm, the Coca-Cola Foundation, aim to make a greater impact on the communities they serve around the world by being responsive to the citizenship priorities where they live and work. |
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SWAPPCon 2008 Presentation Materials |
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The presentation materials of SWAPPCon 2008 is now available for download at our Resource Center for SWAPP Members. For non-members, please contact SWAPP through email to request copies of the presentations.
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Consulative Workshop Documentations for the Preparation of the National SWM Strategy |
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A total of seven workshops was held for the three multi-level stakeholders and actors groups identified by the project team.
The first two SWM sector-specific diagnosis workshops was conducted in Manila, the third diagnosis workshop was held as a regional workshop in Davao City/Mindanao. The objectives of these workshops was to determine the current SWM activities of the stakeholders and actors involved in SWM implementation, and to identify issues and concerns regarding SWM implementation.
Based on the findings of the diagnosis workshops, a priority setting workshop is held to help the the participants identify issues and problems to be addressed in the National Solid Waste Strategy. They elaborated a priority list of strategies and initiatives for each of the elements of the waste management chain.
The validation workshop is the third level in a series of consultative workshops being facilitated for the elaboration of the National Solid Waste Management Strategy. The primary purpose of the Validation Workshop was to review and validate the proposed Strategic Elements which were elaborated from the results of the Diagnosis and Priority-Setting Workshops as a basis. The Strategic Elements comprise the main content and backbone of the National SWM Strategy.
Download the documentations here.
Note: SWAPP membership is required to download the files. For non-members, please contact SWAPP through email to request copies of the documentations.
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