Questions:

1. What is EIS ?

Answer: Environmental Impact Statement

2. Government office that formulates plans and policies, and sets appropriate environmental
quality standards for the prevention, control of pollution and protection of the environment.

Answer: Environmental Management Bureau

3. Documents needed for the EIS that includes technical/socio-economic data, certificates of
zoning viability and land plans.

Answer: Supporting Documents

TRIVIA:

Pasig River was the world's second worst contributor of plastic waste to the ocean for its size, and the
eighth worst contributor overall in the world back in 2017, according to researchers from Netherlands
and the US ( Nature Communications).

The Pasig River dumps up to 63,700 tons of plastic—the equivalent weight of over 10,600 elephants—
into the ocean each year, according to a recent study by researchers from the Netherlands and the US.

Even the most optimistic estimate for the Pasig River looks extremely grim: the minimum amount of
waste from the garbage-filled waterway is pegged at 32,100 tons per year.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, is the first global assessment of how much
inland populations contribute to ocean plastic through river systems, whereas previous research has
focused mostly on just coastal populations—that is, people living within 50 km from shore.