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ASH and EcoWaste Coalition: Cigarette Butts and Used Electronic Smoking Devices Not Recyclable
6 April 2025, Quezon City. Two civil society organizations dedicated to the protection of public health and the environment pushed for an upstream solution to deal with the by-product waste of smoking and vaping. The Action on Smoking and Health-Philippines…
Healthcare Waste Project Rolls Out Year One Implementation with National Workshop
Quezon City – The Philippine Healthcare and Mercury Wastes Management Project (HCW Project) kicked off its five-year implementation with a national workshop on Friday, January 31, 2025, marking the end of its inception phase and the execution of its comprehensive…
EcoWaste Coalition to PBBM: Waste-to-Energy Is Not the Answer to Flooding
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,…
EcoWaste Coalition Finds Online Shopping Sites Rife with FDA-Warned Insecticide Sprays
6 July 2024, Quezon City. On the eve of the 7.7 online shopping sales, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition alerted consumers against the purchase and use of unregistered insecticide sprays, which may contain hazardous ingredients that can endanger public…
How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
A few simple strategies for recipe curation can help newsgroups achieve their own climate goals. By Laura Lee Cascada The global shift toward plant-forward diets, particularly in wealthy countries, is consistently recognized as one of the most effective ways to reduce global…
Warning Out on 3 More Leaded Spray Paints
17 January 2024, Quezon City. Following its most recent exposé on 31 lead-containing spray paints, the EcoWaste Coalition today named three more products containing dangerous levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin that has been banned in paint manufacturing. The toxics…
GEF-UNIDO Healthcare Wastes Project Launches to Pioneer Sustainable Solutions in Philippine Healthcare Waste Management
Quezon City, December 6, 2023 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB), Department of Health (DOH), and BAN Toxics, together with EcoWaste Coalition and Healthcare without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA), have…
Don’t Fuel Our Destruction
Communities to Hold a Day of Action Against Incineration as the Asia Clean Energy Forum Goes Underway Manila, Philippines – June 10, 2023 – The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) in Asia Pacific will hold a Day of…
The ‘pass’ violates the fundamental principles of our Republic
By Barbara Stiegler (*) For the past 15 years, I have been teaching ethics and public health to caregivers who come to the university for training. Together, we try to understand why “free and informed consent” has become the cornerstone…
Bonus “Danger Money” won’t appease union in health and social care
Several governments across Europe promised, or even gave, ‘danger money’ bonuses for frontline workers in health and social care as the pandemic gathered strength. Such bonuses can only treat the symptom not the cause, however. Bonuses and even higher wages…
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