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ROME, Italy (AFP) — Twelve teams of firefighters battled Tuesday to put out a vast fire at a garbage dump in Rome as critics slammed the capital’s beleaguered waste manager and warned of chaos to come. The odor of burning refuse wafted across the historic center as the blaze, which began overnight, crept steadily from the site in the north-east of the city. City hall said it had called the national civil protection agency and […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kabi-kabilang basura ang iniwang bakas ng mga sumama sa prusisyon ng itim na Nazareno ng mga kababayan nating Katoliko na ginanap sa lungsod ng Maynila kahapon, Enero 9. Samu’t-sari ang mga ito tulad ng mga bote ng alak, mga styro na karamihan ay may laman pang pagkain at mga plastic cup na binili hindi kalayuan sa isang convenience store. Mayroon naman mga street sweeper na itinalaga ang Metropolitan Manila Development […]
(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) — Kumakalat sa social media ngayon ang larawan ng isang maliit na seahorse na may bitbit na maliliit na plastik ng basura sa karagatan. Kuha ito ng isang batikang photographer na si Justin Hofman sa isang karagatan sa Indonesia. Ayon kay Hofman, hindi niya inaasahan ang pangyayaring ito, dahil nung araw na iyon ay kagagaling niya lamang sa isang expedition at sa sobrang pagod at nainitan siya ay lumangoy siya kasama ng kaibigan […]
Western consumer giants are polluting oceans by selling products packaged in cheap, disposable plastic to Filipinos, Greenpeace said, naming Nestle, Unilever and Procter & Gamble among the worst offenders. The environmental group ranked the Philippines as the “third-worst polluter into the world’s oceans” after China and Indonesia in a report released on Friday. Single-use plastics from products sold by conglomerates, such as bags, bottle labels, and straws, stood out during a week-long Greenpeace clean-up campaign held […]
by Rodrigo Almonacid Agence France Presse BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Emptying the bins of Colombia’s capital, Jose Alberto Gutierrez one day found a copy of the classic novel “Anna Karenina,” and kept it. That was 20 years ago — and the garbage man continued to collect Bogota’s discarded books, amassing 25,000 in a free library, swelled by donations. “I realized that people were throwing books away in the rubbish. I started to rescue them,” Gutierrez, […]
by Jo Biddle Agence France Presse UTRECHT, Netherlands (AFP) — A Dutch engineer aiming to clean up vast ocean “garbage patches” of plastic Thursday unveiled a radical design breakthrough, enabling his ambitious project to start two years early. Boyan Slat’s innovative scheme seeks to use ocean currents to help gather up an estimated five trillion pieces of plastic — everything from bottles, to plastic bags, flip-flops and other detritus — from the planet’s waters. After […]
BALANGA CITY, Bataan (Eagle News) – Isinagawa ang Relaunching of Ecological Waste Management Program sa Plaza Mayor de Balanga, Bataan. Dinaluhan ito ng mga empleyado ng City Government at iba pang LGU’s sa pangunguna ni Mayor Francis Garcia. Narito ang mga binalangkas na programa o aktibidad ng Solid Waste Management; Balik Basket and Bayong Program Gamit pang eskwela mula sa Basura Plastic Palit Bigas Junkshop ng Bayan No Segregation No Collection Schedule of Garbage Collection KAANIB […]
QUEZON CITY, Jan. 21 (PIA)–The Quezon City government appealed to Environment Secretary Gina Lopez to reconsider her order regarding the immediate closure of the Payatas sanitary landfill as the move would derail the city government’s solid waste management system.A statement from the City’s Environmental Protection and Waste Management Department stated that the Quezon City government is addressing every necessary step to address the concerns of the DENR Secretary. “To this extent, the Quezon City government […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (Reuters) – Lorries began clearing the rubbish that had piled up in Beirut’s streets, under a plan approved last month to solve the seven-month garbage crisis in Lebanon. And though residents are relieved to be able to enjoy clean streets in the capital again, environmentalists warn against what they say is only a temporary solution. The garbage crisis, which began last July when the Naameh landfill site south of Beirut was closed with […]
MANILA, Philippines, July 16 (Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is going to ask the local government of Tarlac for permission to dump imported garbage from Canada in the said province. The said bureau sees this as the only way of dispatching the imported garbage that is currently staying at the Manila port area. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
