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DENR calls for concerted efforts to end garbage crisis

By Helen Flores | December 9, 2019 - 12:00am

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources yesterday called for cooperation among all stakeholders and the public...

Headlines

Metro Manila in the midst of ‘garbage crisis,’ DENR chief says

By Gaea Katreena Cabico | December 5, 2019 - 6:48pm

Data from DENR showed the waste generated in Metro Manila in the first half of 2019—pegged at over 66,000 cubic meters—has...

Headlines

EDITORIAL - Trash problem

July 20, 2019 - 12:00am

Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has brushed aside fears of a looming garbage crisis in the city following the expiration of...

Freeman Opinion

Protesters urge ASEAN leaders to ban trash imports

June 20, 2019 - 6:17pm

Countries in ASEAN now receive more than a quarter of global plastic waste, most of which comes from developed economies...

World

Philippines ships back Hong Kong waste

By Gaea Katreena Cabico | June 3, 2019 - 5:30pm

The Philippines again asserted that it is not a dumping ground as it sent a container van loaded with mixed garbage back...

Headlines

Malaysia to ship back hundreds of tons of plastic waste

May 29, 2019 - 2:12pm

Hundreds of tons of imported plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from, Malaysia said Tuesday, insisting...

World

Palace calls for vigilance amid new trash shipment from Hong Kong

By Patricia Lourdes Viray | May 24, 2019 - 5:14pm

Malacañang called on all concerned government agencies to remain vigilant against trash coming from foreign count...

Headlines

Group urges China to probe trash shipment from Hong Kong

By Gaea Katreena Cabico | May 24, 2019 - 12:01pm

China should investigate the entry of mixed plastic waste shipment from Hong Kong, environmental watch group EcoWaste Coalition...

Headlines

Philippines no dumping ground, Greenpeace stresses as new trash shipment blocked

May 23, 2019 - 7:23pm

The reported dumping of garbage from Australia is “unacceptable and deplorable,” Greenpeace Philippines said as...

Headlines

China plastic waste ban throws global recycling into chaos

By Sam Reeves | April 26, 2019 - 9:29am

From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China's...

World