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Warning Out on Fish-Shaped Electronic Toys for Pets

17 May 2023, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition is warning consumers against a China-made fish-shaped toy intended for pet cats and dogs that contains a persistent organic pollutant (POP) and other chemicals of concern. The group issued…

How bad policy ends up hurting the environment and the people

In general, we seek the expression of life in all its fullness. All this so that people can express their full capacities, faculties and potential, so that ecosystems and their respective species can express their life potential. But for that…

Royalties for the Environment: Musicians give Earth Songwriting Credit

Brian Eno has a charity organization called Earth/Percent. It encourages musicians to donate a portion of their earnings to environmental protection. They do this by making the earth a co-writer of their songs. The resulting income is then donated directly…

Trump Rot at the EPA

A new report by the EPA’s internal watchdog has exposed Trump administration appointees that meddled in the agency’s science to weaken “the toxicity assessment of PFASs.” If not for the Biden administration, which discovered this egregious complicity by political appointees…

VISION & GRIT: Exceptional Zero Waste Women In the Asia Pacific Region (seventh in the series)

MAGESWARI SANGARALINGAM: A Journey of Persistence, Dedication, and Grit by Sherma E. Benosa Mageswari Sangaralingam, or simply Mages to her colleagues and friends, has always been close to nature. Growing up in the Malaysian countryside, she would always insist on taking…

EcoWaste Coalition Backs Global Green Fund to Address Toxic Chemical Crisis

28 February 2023, Quezon City.  The environmental health and justice watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has added its voice to the call to create a Global Green Chemicals and Waste Fund. The group aired the need for a dedicated fund to…

BAN Toxics warns the public against vape waste, a nascent e-waste stream

Vaping use has been rising in the Philippines, particularly among teens. With the law allowing the use of vaporized nicotine and non-nicotine products for 18-year-olds and above, vapes, including disposable or single-use ones, have swamped the market. With the rising…

Campaign to save wetlands gains momentum

Recent initiatives in Argentina, China and the United Kingdom show that campaigns to preserve the world’s wetlands are gaining momentum, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said on the occasion of World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2. In December 2022,…

Church and Environmental Groups Exhort Black Nazarene Devotees to Go Zero Waste

7 January 2023, Quezon City.  Coinciding with the observance of January as Zero Waste Month, church and environmental organizations exhorted the faithful devotees of the Black Nazarene to mark the upcoming feast without leaving a trail of garbage. In a…

EcoWaste Coalition Promotes Eco-Friendly Celebration of Christmas to Prevent and Reduce “Holitrash”

21 December 2022, Quezon City.  As Christmas draws closer, a waste and pollution watchdog group appealed for public cooperation to lessen the environmental impact of the much-anticipated festive celebration. At an event held yesterday at the San Pablo Apostol Parish…

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