Atty. Dwight Ramos, JD, President of the UST Alumni Association, Inc., was sworn in as a Commissioner of the National Solid Waste Management Commission. Ramos, who began his three-year term, will help the commission in overseeing the Ecological Solid Waste Management and Extended Producers Responsibility laws by representing the Private Sector.
Ramos has vast experience with nongovernmental organizations promoting solid waste management or reduction, recycling, and resource recovery. In an interview with the Communications Bureau, Ramos stated that he will help 鈥減romote adherence to segregation at source by all waste generators in support to Carbon Neutrality and Sustainability Initiatives toward a circular economy and a zero-waste future.鈥�
The UST alumni president also bared that there鈥檚 a need to change the mindset of waste generators from Not in My Backyard or the old NIMBY attitude, to taking personal responsibility for their own waste right in their homes or offices as responsible stewards of the earth and creation. Ramos called on 鈥渆veryone to help in the effort of saving the environment without waiting for somebody else to do it and right within their places, with a Now in My Backyard attitude.鈥�
Ramos earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Faculty of Civil Law in 1990. He called on his fellow Thomasians to take steps 鈥渢oward a more sustainable lifestyle in order to heed the call for our common home under the encyclical of Pope Francis, Laudato S铆, which is about caring for the planet and the urgent need to address environmental challenges. It calls on people to take action and have a global dialogue about how their actions and decisions impact the future of the planet.鈥�
