The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) urged cement makers to explore ways to utilize plastic waste as a raw material to help reduce the country's solid waste generation by at least 40 percent.

'When all these cement plants will participate, we can dramatically reduce the volume of plastic waste which will be now regarded as raw materials of the cement plants in their current processing,' said DENR-EMB Director William Cuñado, citing that several cement firms in the country have already adopted the conversion of plastic waste into energy.