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(Eagle News)–Criminal charges will be pursued against the private importers of the trash from Canada that had been languishing in the Philippines for years. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, who was also designated the caretaker of the government while President Rodrigo Duterte is on a working visit to Japan, said this even as the Canadian government prepared to recall the garbage, a bulk of which had been left in a Tarlac landfill after it was brought […]
(Eagle News)– The removal of the trash shipped by Canada to the Philippines six years ago will have been completed by the end of June, the Canadian government said. In a statement, the North American country said this was as “the waste must be safely treated to meet Canadian safety and health requirements.” It said Catherine McKenna, Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, has awarded a contract to Bollore Logistics Canada. It said the […]
(Eagle News)–Canada has tapped a shipping company to recover the garbage that was shipped to the Philippines six years ago. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said according to Canada, the return of the trash, which languishes in a Tarlac landfill, will be “sooner than later.” No date was, however, specified. Earlier, the Philippines recalled its diplomatic envoys in Canada, after the North American country missed the May 15 deadline to have the trash shipped back. President […]
(Eagle News) – -The EcoWaste Coalition has reiterated its demand for Canada to take its trash back. In her letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Aileen Lucero, coordinator for the environmental group, noted that the issue of the container vans filled with mixed waste including diapers, electronic equipment, among others, languishing in the Philippines has “dragged on for five years without resolution, despite promises from the Canadian government to address the problem..” According to […]
(Eagle News) — Nagbabala ang environmental watchdog na EcoWaste Coalition laban sa pagbili ng mga laruan na nagtataglay ng lead content. Ang mga laruan ang isa sa mga madalas ipanregalo ngayong holiday season para sa mga bata. Sa pagsusuri ng EcoWaste sa toxicity levels ng isangdaang laruan, lumabas na tatlumpu’t dalawa sa mga ito ang may mataas na lead content at walang label. Habang pitumpu’t pito ang walang nakalagay na impormasyon patungkol sa manufacturer o […]
(Eagle News) — Muling kinalampag ng EcoWaste Coalition ang mga manufacturer at maging ang gobyerno na kanilang pananagutan ang paglaganap ng plastic pollution sa bansa. Ang kampanya ay isinagawa ng grupo sa Malate, Maynila ngayong araw bilang paggunita ng Plastic Bag Free Month ngayong Hulyo. Ayon kay Dan Alejandre ng EcoWaste Coalition, panahon na para umiwas na ang lahat sa paggamit ng single use plastic sa pamamagitan ng pagdadala ng mga eco bag o mga […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Isinusulong ngayon ng toxic watch group na EcoWaste Coalition ang ligtas at tamang disposal sa basurang bumbilya na may mercury o asoge na mapanganib sa kapaligiran at kalusugan. Sa pag-aaral ng grupo, ang Pilipinas ay lumilikha ng 50 milyong pirasong basurang bumbilya kada-taon, 22 milyong piraso mula sa mga commercial at industrial establishment, 15 milyong piraso mula sa pampublikong opisina at paaralan at 13 milyong piraso mula sa mga […]
(Eagle News) — Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said he gave President Rodrigo Duterte his “assurance” Canada would “continue to work” on the issue of garbage originating from his country and that was still languishing in the Philippines. But Trudeau did not specifically say the trash brought to the Asian country by 103 container vans from 2013 to 2014 would indeed be returned to Canada. “Canada is very much engaged in finding a […]
(Eagle News) — A waste and pollution watch group exhorted the public to refrain from littering in beaches and other recreational spots this summer. The EcoWaste Coalition asked tourists to aim for “zero marine litter,” especially in coastal areas. “We appeal to all vacationers not to abandon their discards in our beaches and other recreational sites.Leave only your footprints in the sands. Please don’t leave your cigarette butts, plastics and leftover foods behind, ” said Ochie Tolentino, […]
QUEZON CITY, Dec. 15 – As schools get ready for the annual school closedown beginning late next week, a health and environmental watch group reached out to young students to warn them against the hazards of lighting firecrackers during the holidays. Last Wednesday, December 14, the EcoWaste Coalition organized a well-attended awareness-raising drive to encourage the students of the Jacinto Zamora Elementary School (JZES) in Pandacan, Manila to spurn firecrackers and opt for alternative noisemakers to herald the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Environmental group Ecowaste Coalition asks municipal and city government officials helping in the annual “Brigada Eskwela” to properly dispose wastes like fluorescent lamps which can cause mercury contamination. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
9 July 2015. Quezon City. A day before the 15th year commemoration of the ill-famed tragic Payatas trash slide, zero waste advocacy network EcoWaste Coalition and the Payatas-based Alyansa ng mga Samahang Nagkakaisa sa Payatas (ASNP) told the Quezon City government to stop the landfill’s operation and expansion. Leonita Panoy, President of the ASNP, said in her own tongue that “Everyday tons and tons of mixed wastes are dumped in Payatas creating what is now […]
