EcoWaste Coalition

7 November 2024, Quezon City.   The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has detected hazardous chemicals in plastic balls used to decorate Christmas trees. Often sold without any labeling information and warning, these pretty ornaments from recycled plastic could be…

4 November 2024, Quezon City. As spooky Halloween decorations are quickly taken down and replaced with jolly Christmas ornaments, a toxics watchdog group has alerted consumers on which items to avoid to safeguard human health and the environment, too. Amid…

Overflowing Garbage Bins Observed in Most Cemeteries 2 November 2024, Quezon City.   While pleased with the massive influx of people in cemeteries signifying that the beautiful age-old Undas tradition of remembering our dearly departed ones remains alive, a waste…

October 29, 2024. Quezon City. Filipino pro-environment activists and beauty title holders from 10 countries have joined hands to encourage the people to prevent and reduce the generation of garbage in public and private cemeteries. As part of its campaign…

A “supermajority” — 85 percent — of young Americans polled feel distressed about human-caused climate change and, and similar percentages want stronger action from corporations and the government, according to a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health. In the survey — the largest…

Coral reefs throughout the world have suffered immensely from global heating due to human-caused climate change. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — the largest coral reef system in the world — has experienced four mass bleaching events in seven years, leading to die-offs in up to half of…

8 October 2024, Quezon City. In observance of the Consumer Welfare Month this October and in anticipation of the upcoming International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week on October 20-26, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition called on the authorities to enforce…

California is tackling the problem of textile and fashion waste with the country’s first law that requires clothing companies to implement a recycling system for the garments they sell. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act. The new law…

3 October 2024, Quezon City.  To mark the first anniversary of the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a Planet Free of Harm from Chemicals and Waste, or GFC, environmental health groups called on duty-bearers, governments and intergovernmental organizations in…

President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr’s recent pronouncement links waste-to-energy (WtE) to flood control, implying that incinerating municipal solid waste and plastic could somehow mitigate flooding. However, flooding in the Philippines is primarily a result of poor urban planning, deforestation, clogged waterways,…