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Mother Earth is an active member of GAIA, Partnership for
Clean Air, Eco-Waste Coalition, and Earth Day Network Philippines,
(Earth Day Network Philippines is an active member of Earth
Day Network International).MEU
lobbied for the passage of the Clean Air Act and the Ecological
Solid Waste Management Act. We lobbied to change the title
from "Integrated" to "Ecological." Both
laws prohibit incineration as a means of waste disposal. Our
current activities include pushing for implementation
of ecological waste management
all over the Philippines and a full and strict labeling system
for GMOs as well as removing GMOs from the country's food
supply.
We believe that the highest
ethics is the common good. No town is too far to reach, no
group too small to teach. For us, glocalization is the name
of the game - a global perspective, with a firm reality check
when the vision is translated into action. We conduct free
workshops on ecological waste management to the different
sectors of society - barangays (the smallest unit of government),
cities, schools, church organizations, government offices,
private offices, civic organizations and business establishments.
Our goals for the workshops are:
· Education and awareness
of the people on environment protection and proper waste management,
reduction of waste, segregation at source, composting and
recycling towards a zero waste society.
· Decentralization of waste management through the
establishment of a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in every
barangay or in a cluster of barangays, schools, offices, churches,
etc. A MRF must have a composting area and a small warehouse
to temporary store the clean recyclables. The clean recyclables
are sold to the junk shops for ultimate sale to the factories.
These MRFs, because they are such in small scales, are not
capital intensive as differentiated from the MRFs in industrialized
countries. No expensive and highly technical equipment is
needed.
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