Welcome to the Zero Waste Academy!

The Zero Waste Academy (ZWA) is an open online learning platform designed by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific and Mother Earth Foundation. The Academy aims to provide accessible and relevant Zero Waste-related courses to participants interested to learn and implement Zero Waste and other waste-management programs and campaigns in their respective cities and communities.

Zero Waste Program Implementation Track Philippine Cohort 2024 and Asia Pacific Cohort 2024 registrations are now open!

The Timeline

History of the Zero Waste Academy

The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.

GAIA has been promoting Zero Waste as a superior solution to resource management for cities. Zero Waste is an innovative approach to the use of our resources that ensures resource efficiency, resource recovery, and protection of scarce natural resources. It redesigns the unsustainable “business-as-usual” one-way, linear industrial system into a circular system that minimizes unnecessary extraction and consumption, reduces waste, and ensures that products and materials are reused or recycled back into nature or into the market. By pursuing Zero Waste, cities are likely to spend less on their solid waste management costs; provide better livelihood conditions for waste workers; and prevent waste from being brought to end-of-pipe disposal facilities or worse, released into the environment. Read more about GAIA at www.no-burn.org, and learn more about our Zero Waste work at www.zerowasteworld.org.

Mother Earth Foundation (MEF) is a non-stock, non-profit organization actively engaged in addressing waste and toxic pollution, climate change, and other health and environmental justice issues. It is best known for its advocacy of Zero Waste through the systematic reduction and proper management of waste.

Since its founding in 1998, MEF has waged a nationwide campaign to train communities, schools, barangays (the smallest government unit in the Philippines), cities, and municipalities on how to reduce and manage waste so that it brings no harm to public health or the environment and does not exacerbate climate change.MEF helps local governments implement Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. Many of the communities and LGUs the MEF has trained have gained recognition as models of ecological waste management, winning various national, regional, and distinct awards. Read more at www.motherearthphil.org.

MEF helps local governments implement Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. Many of the communities and LGUs the MEF has trained have gained recognition as models of ecological waste management, winning various national, regional, and distinct awards. Read more at www.motherearthphil.org.

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