Philippines

USAID Grantee Celebrates Successful Zero-Waste Stores in Philippines

The Sea Waste Education to Eradicate Plastic (SWEEP) model was built on one simple idea: reduce plastic waste in the Philippines by designing convenience stores that don’t use single-use plastic sachets. Implemented by the Philippine Reef and Rainforest Conservation Foundation… Read More

Municipal Waste Recycling Program (MWRP) – Philippines Country Profile

Each year, eight million metric tons of plastic pour into the world’s ocean. This global crisis has origins in poor waste management systems of rapidly urbanizing coastal cities in developing countries. The Philippines—comprised of over 7,000 islands—is the world’s third largest plastic polluter to the marine environment, contributing approximately 750,000 metric tons annually. Read More

Municipal Waste Recycling Program USAID MWRP Fact Sheet

 KEEPING PLASTICS OUT OF THE OCEAN Every year, eight million metric tons of plastic waste pour into the world’s ocean—the equivalent of a garbage truck dumping a load of plastic into the ocean every minute.1 Ineffective waste management systems and infrastructure in developing countries have led to much of this… Read More

Nestle Partnership with USAID Grantee Encourages Reusable Packaging

With support from Nestle, USAID grantee Philippine Reef & Rainforest Conservation Foundation, Inc. launched a new approach to tackle a key source of ocean plastics: single-use sachets. Read More

USAID’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Program Issues Call for Grant Applications in the Philippines

CCBO-APS Philippines Updated Questions and Answers In August 2019, the Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO) Program… Read More

Moving Up the Recycling Value Chain

In the Philippines, both formal and informal private sector actors manage the recycling value chain. Small recycling centers called junk shops play a critical role in this chain by purchasing recyclables from independent waste collectors and then reselling to larger materials processing facilities. Junk shop ownership is a key… Read More

Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity (SURGE) Project

The USAID Strengthening Urban Resilience for Growth with Equity (SURGE) project was a five-year, $47.8 million project, which fostered the development of conditions for broad-based, inclusive and resilient economic growth of cities and surrounding areas outside Metro Manila. Read More

Municipal Waste Recycling Program

Providing grants and technical assistance for promising solid waste management and waste recycling efforts in urban and peri-urban areas With rapid global population growth and urbanization, municipal waste generation is expected to rise to 2.2 billion tons per year by 2025 according to the World Bank. Much of this waste… Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean

While CCBO is global in scope, the program will build on previous USAID recycling programs such as the Municipal Waste Recycling Program through an initial focus on key countries in Asia and Latin America. Read More

Door-to-Door Entrepreneurs

Navotas City, a large coastal city in the Philippines, generates about 80 tons of trash each day.[1] Too much of this waste ends up in Manila Bay, which is central to the city’s fishing industry. Despite these challenges, there are opportunities for job creation and economic growth in building… Read More