Tag: EcoWaste Coalition

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Government

TRADE-IN E-WASTE FOR FREE CONCERT TICKETS – DENR

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) continues to ramp-up efforts for the safe and responsible disposal of electronic waste and to raise awareness on its health and environmental impacts. The DENR-EMB has partnered with public interest and advocacy network EcoWaste Coalition for an e-waste exchange initiative geared towards consumers. The “Together […]

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Politics

LUNTIANG PILIPINAS BACKS PLASTIC WASTE IMPORT BAN

“If you produce the garbage, you deal with it––you do not dump in on your neighbor’s front yard.” This, according to Luntiang Pilipinas Party-list first nominee Michael Ubac, is the logic behind calls to prohibit the importation of plastic waste and for the government to ratify amendments to the Basel Convention, an international treaty that […]