Safety & Sanitation issues constrain more food products refilling stations

Before the advent of single use plastics and most especially plastic sachets, homemakers were already used to buying their daily food needs from the neighborhood sari-sari store and tiangge,  and brought along used glass bottles for their cooking oil and condiments, and bayongs for their meat, fish and vegetable purchases. As the late National Artist Nick Joaquin coined it, the …

When plastic waste won’t wait : DENR, Nestlé PH organize multi-stakeholder discussions for successful implementation of EPR law

Solid waste continues to be a challenge for the Philippines as waste generation rates steadily rise annually while recovery and recycling rates lag behind. Of the estimated 61,000 metric tons of solid waste generated daily in the Philippines, up to 24% is plastic, the biggest source of which are packaging materials or SKUs (stock keeping …

DENR & Nestle PH expedite Extended Producer Responsibility education & registration drive in Cagayan de Oro City

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Nestle Philippines conducted a one-day Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) education and registration drive dubbed “Rethinking Plastics: EPR Paving the Way Towards Circularity” on October 6 at the Mallberry Suites Business Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City. The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act, which lapsed into law in July 2022, …

Pueblo de Oro garners Best Township Awards in Luzon and Mindanao

Pueblo de Oro Development Corporation has been recognized by two prestigious award  giving bodies for its two flagship projects in Malvar, Batangas, and Cagayan de Oro City.   Pueblo de Oro Townscapes Malvar won both the Best Township Development and Best Lifestyle Development awards during the 11th  PropertyGuru Philippine Property Awards of the property technology …

CREBA PILLAR AWARDS : Cagayan de Oro Developers are Mindanao’s Developers of the Decade

In celebration of its 50th Founding Anniversary this year, CREBA recognized the Best of the Best in Philippine Real Estate & Housing Development through the prestigious CREBA PILLAR AWARDS on September 28, 2023 at the Conrad Hotel Manila during the Gala Night of the CREBA Golden Jubilee National Convention and Housing Expo. Dubbed “The Search for the Developers of the Decade,” awardees …

Cagayan de Oro rises to No. 7 as the Philippines Most Competitive Highly Urbanized City

Cagayan de Oro City rose one rank higher to No. 7 in the Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index (CMCI) for Highly Urbanized Cities for 2023. It was previously ranked No. 8 in 2022. Cagayan de Oro is ranked Top 2 for the Resiliency Pillar, Top 5 for the Innovation Pillar, Top 7 for both Most …

CAMI Candles light the way to a brighter lifestyle

No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. (Luke 8:16 NIV) The global pandemic created havoc and all sorts of disruptions in the lives of people around the …

Mindanaw Arboretum : Living museum aims to sustain Philippine Arboreal Heritage

Within a ten-hectare property at Barangay Pagawan, Manticao , Misamis Oriental is a repository of endemic trees native to the Philippines. Started in 2018 by Lawyer Carl Cesar Rebuta of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Inc.- Friends of the Earth Philippines (Kasama sa Kalikas), the 1.6 hectare Mindanaw Arboretum now has over 200 …

Nestlé, Cepalco, Minergy close the sustainability loop with RE

When Nestlé Philippines, Inc. (NPI) launched its roadmap in 2021 to attain net zero greenhouse gases by 2050, it pledged to transform its operations by running all of its factories and offices in the country on renewable electricity. Barely two years later, it has attained that lofty goal in in partnership with Mindanao Energy Systems …