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DENR Secretary Paje Rallies Public Support For Coastal Clean-Up Event

DENR Secretary Paje is rallying 13,000 volunteers to participate in the Coastal Cleanup Event to remove trash from Manila Bay and a coastal wetland in Las Piñas City on September 19th. This event is part of the International Coastal Cleanup initiative, a 30-year global event that aims to engage volunteers to remove trash from beaches and waterways worldwide. Since joining the effort in 1994, the Philippines has registered over 3 million volunteers, collecting hundreds of thousands of kilos of trash annually along its shorelines and waterways.

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DENR Secretary Paje Rallies Public Support For Coastal Clean-Up Event

DENR Secretary Paje is rallying 13,000 volunteers to participate in the Coastal Cleanup Event to remove trash from Manila Bay and a coastal wetland in Las Piñas City on September 19th. This event is part of the International Coastal Cleanup initiative, a 30-year global event that aims to engage volunteers to remove trash from beaches and waterways worldwide. Since joining the effort in 1994, the Philippines has registered over 3 million volunteers, collecting hundreds of thousands of kilos of trash annually along its shorelines and waterways.

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DENR Secretary Paje rallies public support for

Coastal Clean-up Event.


DENR Secretary Ramon J.P Paje rallied residents of Metro Manila and nearby areas to
participate to their Coastal Cleanup Event. The Event purpose is to remove trash from the shores
of Manila bay and a coastal wetland in Las Pias City.
The upcoming event will be part of the local celebration of the International Coastal
Cleanup (ICC) Day on September 19.
As of now, 13,000 volunteers have signed up for the event where they will pick up litter
at Manila Bay along Roxas Boulevard in Manila and Tanza village in Navotas, and Las PiasParaaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area.
The ICC is a 30-year-old global event initiated by the Ocean Conservancy, a nongovernment organization based in Washington D.C., United States. It aims to engage people to
remove trash from beaches and waterways around the world, identify the sources of the debris
and chance the behavioral patterns that contribute to pollution.
Since the Philippines joined the effort in 1994, it has so far registered 3.39 million
volunteers or about 32% of the total 10.5 million volunteers the ICC had mobilized worldwide
since its inaugural observance in 1986.
Last year, about 562,000 volunteers from 91 countries joined the cleanup, and 107,695 of
them are from the Philippines.
Filipinos volunteers have removed 208,438 kilos of trash along 335 kilometers of
shorelines and waterways and the most common items found were cigarette butts, food wrappers,
plastic bottles and caps, straws, grocery bags, glass bottles and beverages cans.
Based on the annual report of the Ocean Conservancy, the Philippines collected 240,360
kilos in 2010; 485,091 in 2011; more than 1.3 million in 2012 and 734,131 in 2013.
In 2003, Presidential Proclamation No.470 was issued declaring the third Saturday of
September of every year as ICC Day.

The Photo shows the big difference between The Paco Public Market before and now, as the
result of the government Clean and Green Project with the help of the ABS-CBN Foundation.

As time passes by, we people now are not taking good care of our mother earth anymore,
we almost destroying her because everything thats important to us now is the thing that we get
to our nature. We still dont realize the importance of nature, just a few of us does.

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