Question & AnswerQ&A (PROCLAMATION NO. 760)
Proclamation No. 760 declares every month of January as Zero Waste Month in the Philippines to promote environmental awareness and sustainable waste management practices.
Republic Act No. 9003, also known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.
The main advocacy is 'zero waste,' which promotes designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate waste volume and toxicity, conserve and recover resources, and avoid indiscriminate disposal or burning of waste.
Zero waste is an advocacy that promotes designing and managing products and processes to avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and prevent indiscriminate disposal or burning.
All heads of departments, agencies, instrumentalities of the national government, Government-Owned or -Controlled Corporations, Local Government Units, and other sectors.
To guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices towards sustainable natural cycles where discarded materials are reused as resources and to promote environmental awareness and action.
The President relies on the powers vested in him by law, particularly those related to environmental policies such as RA 9003.
RA 9003 establishes the policy framework for ecological solid waste management, and Proclamation No. 760 builds upon this by declaring January as Zero Waste Month to promote the principles of RA 9003.
It refers to environmental systems where discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use, promoting ecological balance and resource recovery.
LGUs are encouraged to support and participate actively in the programs and activities related to Zero Waste Month as part of their function in ecological solid waste management.