{"id":4208,"date":"2020-03-04T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T12:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2024-08-21T02:36:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:36:39","slug":"waste-trade-and-the-philippines-how-local-and-global-policy-instruments-can-stop-the-tide-of-foreign-waste-dumping-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/publication\/4208\/waste-trade-and-the-philippines-how-local-and-global-policy-instruments-can-stop-the-tide-of-foreign-waste-dumping-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste trade and the Philippines: How local and global policy instruments can stop the tide of foreign waste dumping in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This report is a review of waste trade-related policies in the Philippines. It examines how current laws and regulations have fallen short of giving the country adequate protection against the detrimental impacts of waste trade\u2014regardless of whether the importation was illegally or legally fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n<p>It also shows how gaps in current policies and systems allow illegal waste to enter undetected into the country, and how waste, purportedly for recycling, continuously enters our ports\u2014despite the lack of proper recycling facilities, and the absence of stringent monitoring systems to ensure the proper handling of the imported waste.<\/p>\n\n<p>The report is co-published by Greenpeace Philippines and EcoWaste Coalition.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2020\/03\/da311344-waste-trade-in-the-philippines-report-v2.pdf\">Download the full report HERE<\/a><\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"EmptyMessage\">Block content is empty. Check the block&#8217;s settings or remove it.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A policy paper that looks at current waste and importation laws to identify gaps and loopholes that allow waste trade to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":4210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2020\/03\/2c16fdc1-waste-trade-in-the-philippines-cover.jpg","p4_og_image_id":"4210","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,8],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability","tag-pollution","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66779,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/66779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}