Across Southeast Asia, we’re all grappling with plastic waste, from rivers choked with bottles and packaging to new proposals for ‘waste-to-energy’ plants that promise to turn rubbish into electricity.
But are these really solutions, or just shifting the problem elsewhere? The Philippines, like Malaysia, faces this tension between convenience, consumption and sustainability too.
BFM is joined by two experts from the Philippines who’ve spent years studying and tackling these issues:
Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, an environmental scientist and a former UN chief technical advisor on the environment. He is currently an adjunct professor and senior research fellow at Silliman University, Philippines.
Merci Ferrer, the co-convenor for War on Waste Negros Oriental, and the president of the Philippines office for the Global Alliance of Incinerator Alternatives (Gaia).
Together, they will explore what it really takes to move toward cleaner, more sustainable ways of living.
Presented and produced by: Juliet Jacobs/BFM
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Galakkan pembangunan saksama, lestari serta tangani krisis alam sekitar
Raikan kerencaman dan keterangkuman
Selamatkan demokrasi dan angkatkan keluhuran undang-undang
Lawan rasuah dan kronisme
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