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Greenpeace calls for PH government’s urgency and political will to act after 4th landfill disaster
Another landfill disaster has struck the Philippines, this time in Davao City, claiming one life, while two elderly individuals remain missing.
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Greenpeace: ASEAN leaders cannot claim climate leadership while silencing peaceful protest
While ASEAN leaders spoke of sustainability and regional resilience at opening day of the summit in Cebu, peaceful Greenpeace activists calling for solutions to the climate and plastic crises to contribute to those same goals outside the venue were taken into police custody.
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Envi, labor groups seek release of probe findings on deadly Binaliw trash slide
Members of the Justice for Prime Waste 39 Network filed a Freedom of Information request seeking full disclosure of documents related to the Binaliw trash slide. Despite earlier commitments from DENR Region 7 to conduct regular public briefings, no official findings from the probe have been released to date.
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The bill is due: Filipino communities demand Unilever pay for decades of plastic pollution
Multisectoral groups from the Philippines have filed a landmark pollution complaint before the Pollution Adjudication Board of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-PAB) against Unilever PLC and Unilever Philippines, Inc.
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Navotas landfill fire latest in dangerous trend of waste disasters
Following the fire at the closed Navotas Sanitary Landfill in Barangay Tanza, Navotas, environmental group Greenpeace Philippines warned that the incident is part of a growing and dangerous pattern of waste catastrophes in the Philippines, underscoring the urgent need to address the country’s waste crisis at source, through reduction.
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Months after deadly trash slides, groups say gaps persist, call out weak policies
Months after the fatal trash slides in Cebu and Rizal, impacted communities and civil society organizations say little has changed in addressing the country’s worsening waste and plastic crisis. The groups gathered at the University of the Philippines Cebu for a public forum to push for stronger accountability and upstream solutions, warning that without strong…
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Greenpeace: Trash slides are bound to happen again, PH government must act now
Communities residing near Binaliw Landfill hold a candle lighting vigil, expressing their indignation for the suffering they are experiencing from the impacts of the neighboring dumpsite. Last January, 36 waste workers lost their lives to the trash slide that buried the waste segregation facility they were working in. Weeks after the tragedy in Binaliw, a…
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Greenpeace: Rizal landfill collapse exposes gov’t inaction on waste
Weeks after the Binaliw landfill tragedy, which claimed 36 lives, another trash slide incident happened in Rodriguez, Rizal. Reports claim that there are at least three individuals missing since a portion of the landfill collapsed last Friday afternoon.
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Real change needs real options
In conversations about plastic waste, behavior change is often described as simply a matter of motivation. If people care enough, the thinking goes, they will reduce plastic use. But insights from reuse projects in Southeast Asia tell a fuller story.
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People pay the price as Plastics Treaty talks end in deadlock
After two years of negotiations, governments in Geneva once again failed to agree on a Global Plastics Treaty strong enough to end the plastic crisis—choosing delay and division over decisive action to protect people and the planet.