Five Metro Manila cities—Makati, Muntinlupa, Pasig, Quezon City, and Valenzuela—generate 861,967 tons of waste per year, according to a study conducted by the Asian Development Bank in 2003.

During a gathering of conservation advocates and students in Quezon City entitled “Trash Talk”, Czarina Constantino of the Haribon Foundation shared with students and environment workers data and narrative accounts of waste management issues and global waste concerns.

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