Thousands of families and children survive on the pennies they earn from waste picking and junk trading every day. It gives them food and water that to this day are still insufficient to fill their stomachs because despite discreetly doing more good in the community, waste picking remains an undignified profession.

How can we change this narrative and formalize this informal sector in waste management?

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What will it take to normalize an approach that spells the possibility of eliminating residual wastes and gaining full control of the production to disposal process?

In this episode, the EPPIC finalists bares how their projects will support UNDP's mission of mainstreaming the circular economy.

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In order to see different results, one must be willing to do things differently.

In this third episode of #SUSTAINARUMBLExUNDP #EPPIC2021 miniseries, let's find out how our ASEAN finalists aim to make a cleaner and greener world through innovation.

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What was the most interesting founding story of an impactful company that you've ever encountered?

In this second episode of #SUSTAINARUMBLExUNDP EPPIC 2021 miniseries, meet 6 of the 8 ASEAN finalists and discover how they founded their initiatives! Note: it's not always what you expected. 

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Based on a 2015 study, the Philippines is one of the top 5 countries contributing to marine plastic wastes. Another study states that, without action, we risk having more plastic than fishes in the ocean by 2050. 

To face this dilemma, we are in search for novel solutions! And in this episode, we explore UNDP's goal in addressing marine litter and achieving circularity through EPPIC, the Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge 2021!

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Much like other social, environmental, and economic issues, the programs and policies set to completely manage waste generation and collection lack funding and thorough implementation. There is also a growing mentality where people believe that controlled dumpsites are necessary but just not in their neighborhood.

There is an informal waste ecosystem that could augment our efforts in waste collection. It has been there even before R.A. 9003 or the Solid Waste Management was put into law. But what can we do to make it both systematic and economically beneficial for the players involved?

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Almost all things that approach their end-of-life go to landfills. From the tin cans and snack packaging to plastic bottles and styrofoams, objects end piling up on mountain-like dumpsites with no hope to be decomposed or reproduce in sight.

Cities and barangays in the Philippines were poised to put waste management under control especially with the comprehensive policies in place. Instead, local communities have been left compromising. Why is this happening?

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Do we really need to widen roads even inner streets and secondary avenues to alleviate traffic? Do we really need to build elevated highways in order to "split" vehicles on the road and eventually accommodate faster travel?

If you look closely, the best question to ask is: are we moving more people and less cars through the new frameworks and policies we build? Think about it, 5-to-7-seaters dominate our road spaces and yet they carry about 1 or 2 people on a given day while 88% of the commuting population is left hanging with a public transit system that is yet to go fully modernized.

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Metro Manila today appears like a carbon-copy of Utrecht in The Netherlands, Vienna in Austria, and Brussels in Belgium back in the 1980s. But what's interesting is, contrary to Western-style development economics of building more roads to "lighten" car throughput, these European countries stayed true to their culture and heritage. Instead of flyovers and highways, they gave spaces back to the people. 

But how? Can it be done in Metro Manila, too?

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Picture yourself going to your workplace in Makati coming from your home in Quezon City. A one-way commute in the morning alone would take you 2 hours and a half, including boarding, alighting, and walking the last mile. But did you know that the average daily commute in Japan that includes going to and from work combined is almost 2 hours — imagine the difference!

Contrary to popular belief, transportation is only a part of this painful traffic issue, but NOT the main reason why the traveling situation within cities is worsening. So, what is?

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