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WASTE AT WATERSHEDS. IDIS staff conducts clean-up and waste audit at the wetlands at Sitio Gravahan, Matina and Brgy. Bucana, Davao City early February 2021. In this clean-up drive, almost seven sacks of assorted solid waste were collected. Most of the waste was plastic materials. (Photo by Idis)
The Yellow Drum Project is an initiative by Davao Thermo BioTech Corp that uses technology to convert biodegradable waste into useful resources. After the 4th drum, subscribers may receive incentives such as this potting mix. (Photo by DTBC)
(Photo by Idis) February 14, 2021 WHEN we throw away the vegetable and fruit peeling in our kitchen garbage can or the empty shampoo and conditioner sachets, the destination of these solid wastes are usually the least of our concern. We take the trash out when it’s full to the designated collection points in our barangay and forget about them once the City Enviro
February 01, 2021 IN RESPONSE to various calls from different environment groups, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is set to certify the proposed Single-use Plastic (SUP) Ban ordinance in the city as urgent. We are intent on writing the Sangguniang Panlungsod (City Council) on saying na urgent ang ban of single-use plastic, the mayor said in a radio interview on 87.5 FM Davao City Disaster Radio on Monday, February 1, 2020.
She said that she was requested to submit a letter to the council intending to have the proposed ordinance as one of their priority legislative measures to be passed.
The ordinance is still pending with the committee on environment, led by Councilor Diosdado Mahipus Jr.
Published January 30, 2021, 11:57 AM
DAVAO CITY – Environmental groups here are calling for the banning of single-use plastics here after almost 2,000 different types of solid wastes were collected in a recent river clean-up.
In a statement Friday, January 28, the Interface Development Interventions (IDIS) and Bantay Bukid volunteers said they were able to collect a total of 1,954 pieces of waste in the river clean-up and brand audit last January 27at the Panigan-Tamugan Watershed in Baguio District here.
“With this alarming result of river clean-up, IDIS and other environmental groups once again call for the ban of single-use plastics in Davao City,” they said.
Published January 29, 2021, 1:41 PM
DAVAO CITY – Davao City-based environmental group Interface Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS) found a dead Philippine Sailfin Lizard, considered an endemic species of the Philippines that is already vulnerable to extinction, which was reportedly shot along the riverbanks of Panigan-Tamugan watershed in Baguio District here.
Dead Philippine Sailfin Lizard, or known to locals as “ibid,” was found along the riverbanks of Davao City’s next water source. (Photo courtesy of Atty. Mark Peñalver, IDIS executive director / MANILA BULLETIN)
IDIS executive director Mark Peñalver said, in an interview, that the dead creature, known to locals as “ibid”, was found during a routine river clean-up and brand audit conducted by the environmental group with members of Bantay Bukid last Wednesday, January 27, along the riverbanks of the watershed, considered as Davao’s next water source.