287,442 sacks of waste pulled from Metro Manila waterways
Manila, Metro Manila
- Waste recovered, January-June 2026
- 287,442 sacks
- Pasig River proper
- 86,121 sacks
- San Juan River
- 43,467 sacks
- Estero de Paco
- 14,751 sacks

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Report an environmental problem in your community and it becomes a numbered case, not a post that scrolls away. The community verifies it. The right office receives it. And anyone can check, in public, whether something was actually done.
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Environmental reporting
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Community verification
Real people. Real checks.
Government action
The right office gets it.
Public transparency
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Cleaner environment/Stronger communities/A brighter future
The live record
Every case on this platform has a number, a status and a clock. This is the whole argument, and it is on the page rather than in a brochure.
Most recent case
maramign nagagtapon ng basura sa may park hindi pinapansin ng LGu
Barangay not given, Malay, Aklan
EARTH-2026-0104ReportedWhy this exists
Someone sees a river choked with plastic. They photograph it. They post it. It gets shared, it gets angry comments, and in three days it is gone.
Nothing about that process produces a record. No office receives it. No one checks whether it was fixed. The next person who notices the same river starts again from nothing, and the problem outlives everyone who cared about it.
EARTHLINK turns that moment into something durable: a numbered case with evidence attached, a verification step, a named office it was sent to, a date it was sent, and a public status that anyone can check. The difference is not the photograph. The difference is that the photograph now belongs to something that remembers.
What a case looks like
Every report on this platform gets one of these. It is the same object on the map, in the list, on the public page, and in the office that receives it.
The five core functions
Education without a way to act is a lecture. Reporting without routing is a complaint box. Action without measurement is a photo opportunity. The five only mean anything together.
Ten topic tracks from climate change to environmental law, taught through short video, infographics and quizzes. Plus EARTH Kids, a simplified area built for children.
Understand the problem before you are asked to solve it.
Anyone can report an environmental concern from a phone. Location, photographs, category and urgency. Every report becomes a numbered EARTH case with a permanent record.
A documented case, not a post that scrolls away.
A verified case is routed to the office that can actually act on it. Barangay, LGU, DENR, school, NGO or expert, with the evidence pack attached and the referral date recorded.
The right people receive it, and that is on the record.
A verified case becomes a mission with a date, a place and a target. Volunteers sign up, attendance is recorded on the day, and the result is measured afterwards.
Advocacy becomes something you can count.
Six public states from Reported to Monitoring, each timestamped and visible. Anyone can follow a case, and anyone can see the platform's own numbers.
You can check whether anything actually happened.
And then it repeats
A resolved case becomes a case study. The next community with the same problem starts from what worked here instead of from nothing.
Track
A case cannot move backwards quietly. Every change of state is timestamped and stays on the record, including the ones that make us look slow.
Someone has filed this concern. Nothing has been checked yet.
The community and the EARTHLINK team are checking that it is real and accurate.
The verified case and its evidence have been sent to the office that can act on it.
Work has started. A mission, an inspection, an order or a clean-up is under way.
The problem was fixed, and the result was measured and recorded.
Resolved, and now being watched so it does not simply happen again.
The EARTH Map
Every case appears on the map by category. Over time the map stops being a record of what went wrong and starts showing where to intervene before it goes wrong again.
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Iloilo
, Cebu City
Cebu
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Metro Manila
Recurring sites, meaning more than one case at the same barangay. This is the view that turns reporting into prevention.
Open the full mapMeasured, not claimed
A case is only closed when the result has been measured on a return visit. Trees are counted at ninety days, not on planting day, because that is the number that tells the truth.
Manila, Metro Manila
Parañaque City, Metro Manila
The register
madami nag tatapon ng basura sa park hindi in
Barangay not given, Malay, Aklan
Reported Sep 17, 2026
An adult dugong was found dead along the shoreline of Barangay Aras-Asan, Sebaste, Antique on the morning of 7 September 2026, and authorities examined the carcass and arranged its handling. A fisheries technologist said the cause of death cannot be established without a necropsy, which could show fishing-related injury, vessel strike, debris or disease. The day before, residents on Liwagao Island in Barangay Sibolo, Caluya, returned a stranded juvenile dugong to the sea at low tide; authorities said there was no indication the two incidents were related.
Aras-Asan, Sebaste, Antique
Reported Sep 7, 2026 · 2 files of evidence
DENR-National Capital Region reported recovering 287,442 sacks of solid waste from Metro Manila's rivers, esteros and easements between January and June 2026, of which 228,396 sacks came from regular operations and 59,046 from emergency response. The Pasig River system accounted for 129,588 sacks, or about 45 percent of the total, with the Pasig River proper yielding 86,121 sacks, the San Juan River 43,467 and Estero de Paco 14,751. About 93 percent of the waste was taken directly from waterways and consisted mostly of non-biodegradable materials and floating water hyacinth.
Manila, Metro Manila
Reported Sep 6, 2026 · 1 file of evidence
Act
A verified case becomes a mission with a date, a place and a target. Attendance is recorded on the day, and the result is measured afterwards.
September 1, 2026
Bued, Alaminos City, Pangasinan
Project RESHORE is a cash-for-work mangrove restoration programme running from 1 September to 31 October 2026 at the Bued Mangrove Eco-Park, restoring a 2.19-hectare section damaged by Typhoon Emong in 2025. Thirty qualified small-scale fisherfolk and residents from at-risk coastal households were trained on 26 August and work up to five hours a day clearing degraded mangroves, removing marine debris and planting new propagules, with allowances, protective gear and tools provided.
September 19, 2026
Pajo, Lapu-Lapu, Cebu
Fifteen coastal sites across mainland Lapu-Lapu and Olango Island have been designated for the 2026 International Coastal Cleanup, starting at 6 a.m. under the theme Clean Seas for Resilient Communities. Sites include the Poblacion ferry boat area, Bridge Park in Pajo where the opening programme is held, Pusok, Ibo, Buaya, Liberty Shrine in Mactan, Punta Engaño, Maribago, Marigondon, Suba-Basbas, Babag, Calawisan, Canjulao, Looc and the Olango barangays of Caubian, Pangan-an and Caohagan. Government workers, residents, organisations, schools, businesses and other volunteers are invited.
September 19, 2026
Pasay City, Metro Manila
SM Cares will run simultaneous coastal cleanups at 32 SM malls across Metro Manila, North and South Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao for International Coastal Cleanup 2026, under the theme Bayanihan Para sa Karagatan, Together for Our Oceans. SM By the Bay in Pasay is the main Manila Bay site. In 2025 the drive drew more than 48,800 volunteers across 28 malls who collected over 200,000 kg of trash; earlier 2026 drives gathered 9,453 volunteers at 16 malls and 24,244 kg.
The advocate
EARTHLINK Philippines is the advocacy of Adam Tryler Guttierez. A problem posted to a comment section scrolls away by the evening. The same problem reported here becomes a numbered case with a named responsible office and a clock that anyone can check.

Learn and EARTH Kids
Ten topic tracks from climate change to environmental law. Plus EARTH Kids, a separate simplified area with its own reading level, built around one question: what can I actually do about it?
The whole point