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PARIS, France (AFP) – Paris city authorities unveiled a “manifesto for beauty” on Tuesday containing plans to spruce up the City of Lights where an online campaign highlighting ugliness and filth has piled pressure on mayor Anne Hidalgo. Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said that several recent initiatives from the Socialist-Green alliance that runs the capital would be scrapped, including allowing Parisians to plant their own gardens on public space. Under a 2015 scheme, locals were […]
by Carolyn Lamboley Agence France-Presse SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AFP) – With rubbish piling up in the desert, the United Arab Emirates has found a new way to get rid of its trash — incinerators that will turn it into electricity. The UAE, one of the world’s top oil exporters, is building the Gulf region’s first waste-to-power plants to ease its chronic trash problem and, at the same time, its reliance on gas-fuelled electricity stations. Green […]
by Sonia Logre and Gildas Le Roux Agence France-Presse ROME, Italy (AFP) – The people of Rome voted on Sunday to elect a new mayor who will have the daunting task of tackling poor public transport and disastrous rubbish management in the Italian capital, dubbed one of the dirtiest cities in the world. Across the country from the Eternal City to Milan, Naples and Bologna, voting kicked off late on Monday for municipal elections being […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila City government has shut down stalls operating on Ilaya Street in Divisoria after the vendors’ failure to fix their trash. A video showed Manila Mayor Isko Moreno shaking his head several times as he walked by heaps of garbage that were in the middle of the street during a surprise inspection. “Hindi ba kayo nahihiya dyan o talagang baboy din kayo sa bahay? Kailangan ko pa kayo sorpresahin? Pinaghahanapbuhay ko na nga […]
by Ivan Couronne Agence France Presse Most of the plastic bottles washing up on the rocky shores of Inaccessible Island, aptly named for its sheer cliffs rising from the middle of the South Atlantic, probably come from Chinese merchant ships, a study published Monday said. The study offers fresh evidence that the vast garbage patches floating in the middle of oceans, which have sparked much consumer hand-wringing in recent years, are less the product of […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte’s strong stand against Canada on the issue of returning its trash back to its shores has inspired other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to also take a strong stand on saying no to wastes being dumped into their countries. This was relayed by Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero of the Bureau of Customs to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III. Guerrero, who came from the 28thmeeting […]
by Alia Dharssi Agence France Pressee VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — Tons of Canadian garbage left in the Philippines for years arrived back home Saturday, putting an end to a festering diplomatic row that highlighted how Asian nations have grown tired of being the world’s trash dump. A cargo vessel loaded with about 69 containers of rubbish docked in a port on the outskirts of Vancouver, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. The […]
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada (Eagle News) — The Philippines returned tons of garbage left in its ports years ago by Canada. The trash which caused tensions between the two countries entered the Deltaport container terminal in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada on the cargo ship Anna Maersk. According to Canadian officials, the trash will be incinerated by a local waste-to-energy facility putting an end to the controversial garbage that even incited Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte […]
(Eagle News) – Canada’s trash is “ready to go” and would be leaving the country by May 30, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., announced this in his twitter post after some 70 containers of trash underwent fumigation and cleaning which was observed by Canadian government officials. “All containers containing garbage [were] cleaned and ready to go. Waiting for a couple of documents and routine permission from […]
(Eagle News)–The deadline for the recall of Canada’s trash is May 15. This is according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin, who said on Tuesday, May 7, that President Rodrigo Duterte expects nothing less. “The deadline is May 15. Period. I don’t give two f**ks what DOF (Department of Finance) says…The President expects the garbage to be seaborne by May 15,” Locsin said. The secretary was responding to a DOF statement that Canada might need […]
(Eagle News) — Dumoble o nag-triple pa ang mga namili at dumayo sa Divisoria noong nakalipas na holiday season kumpara noong mga nakalipas na taon. Ito ang dahilan kung bakit umabot sa 42 toneladang basura ang nahakot ng Manila City Government. Ayon kay Engineer Che Borromeo, pinuno ng Manila City Task Force Clean-Up, pinakamaraming nahakot ay sa Divisoria, meron din sa Quiapo at Blumentritt market. “Ang Divisoria po sentro ng kalakalan yan. Nandyan po lahat […]
(Eagle News)—The garbage which was illegally shipped to Misamis Oriental last year will be sent back to South Korea next week. “We expect the 51 garbage-filled containers stored at MICT (Mindanao International Container Terminal) to be home-bound by January 9 provided that all regulatory requirements are readily available,” MICT port collector John Simon said. The 1200 tons of trash arrived at the MICT port on Oct. 21. The BOC intercepted the “misdeclared shipment” in November […]
