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Warning Out on Newly-Discovered Lead-Containing Spray Paints
1 November 2025, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has discovered a new spray paint brand sold online with lead content that would make it illegal to import, distribute, and sell in the Philippines. Based on the X-Ray…
EcoWaste Coalition Pushes for a Ban on Single-Use Plastics to Lessen Undas Trash
2 November 2025, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition, an advocate for a zero waste and toxics-free society, again pitched for a ban on single-use plastics or SUPs to lessen the volume of garbage generated in cemeteries during the observance of…
Bawas Basura at Polusyon: EcoWaste Coalition Calls for Reduced Garbage and Pollution this Undas 2025
Environmental groups, youth, and beauty queens unite for a cleaner and more mindful observance of Undas 29 October 2025, Manila City – The EcoWaste Coalition, together with the Manila North Cemetery Administration, Department of Public Services (DPS) Manila, and the…
Drug Menace in India: How Deep are the Roots?
As per Media reports, on October 24, 2025, a video reportedly floated on social media, the footage of which went viral on Thursday, shows several girls covering their faces with scarves, entering the shop, purchasing liquor, and leaving briskly with…
The Casablanca Declaration Sends a Contribution to UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children
The Casablanca Declaration sends a contribution to Ms. Mama Fatima Singhateh, UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children (see the contribution HERE). The previous UN Rapporteur has already recognised that surrogacy most often corresponds to child sale under international…
EcoWaste Coalition Deplores Unabated Sale of Mercury-Added Cosmetics despite the Global Ban
(Watchdog group pushes for further actions to enforce the ban and protect human health and the environment) 27 October 2025, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition expressed utmost dismay over the brazen violation of the global ban on…
Civil Society and Industry Groups Put Consumers On Guard against 228 Imported Paints with High Lead Content
18 October 2025, Quezon City. In an exceptional display of unity to uphold the lead paint ban and protect public health against lead exposure, civil society and industry groups of the Philippines released in time for the 13th International Lead Poisoning…
EcoWaste Coalition Raises the Alarm on 20 Imported Paints with Lead Content
12 October 2025, Quezon City. In its latest effort to promote strict adherence to the national lead paint ban, the EcoWaste Coalition disclosed that the 20 spray paint samples it submitted to a private laboratory for confirmatory tests were verified…
Walk, Talk, and Think: How Walking Conversations Can Restore Authentic Learning in the Age of AI
As AI takes over essay writing, one-hour walk-and-talk conversations with instructors allow students to demonstrate a proper understanding through reflection, dialogue, and engagement with nature. The rise of generative AI in education presents both an opportunity and a profound challenge.…
Groups Deplore Sale of Banned Medicinal Patch Containing High Levels of Lead and Mercury
7 October 2025, Quezon City, Philippines/Penang, Malaysia. Malaysian and Filipino civil society groups advocating for consumer and environmental health deplored the online sale of a traditional Chinese skin patch to relieve swelling and pain that has been analyzed to contain…
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