The international environmental organization Greenpeace today warned that the Philippines is in danger of becoming one of the largest dumping grounds in Asia of discredited Western waste management technologies, particularly incineration. At...
The Philippines banned hazardous waste imports in 1990, but huge volumes of toxic trash like used car batteries mainly from industrialized countries continue to flood into the country, poisoning communities and ecosystems near battery recycling...
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