Credit to Author: Jelisa Castrodale| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:59:13 +0000
Piles of single-use clay vessels were found near ruins in Crete, essentially serving as the red Solo cups of their time.
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Credit to Author: Maddie Stone| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:04:42 +0000
Scientists were investigating the cause of “pockmarks” on the seafloor when they made an unsettling discovery: thousands of mini-craters, apparently formed by garbage.
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Credit to Author: Omkar Khandekar| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:36:41 +0000
Due to decades of commercial mountaineering and climate change, the worlds tallest mountain is becoming “the world’s highest garbage dump.”
Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:47:01 +0000
A temporary order suspending waste processing operations at Baguio’s decommissioned dump was lifted on Monday (July 1), after the new mayor promised to convert the city’s mountain of trash into an ecological park by yearend.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 08:20:22 +0000
NORZAGARAY, Bulacan – A landslide has prevented 15 Bulacan towns and cities from delivering their trash to a private landfill for the last two weeks, leaving communities neck deep in uncollected waste.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:14:38 +0000
More illegal shipments of garbage from wealthy countries may be headed this way as the Philippines has been “targeted” as a dumping ground for its lax customs controls.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 13:31:24 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has insisted that he was serious when he threatened to wage war against Canada over its smuggled trash.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:50:59 +0000
Malacañang has lifted its directive for government officials to refrain from traveling to Canada, Executive Secretary Medialdea said Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 17:39:06 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The tons of garbage from Canada illegally dumped in the Philippines several years ago will finally be shipped to its place of origin on May 30, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Monday. In a Twitter post, Locsin said that all garbage containers from Canada had already been “cleaned” and […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 23:23:16 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — When a team of young marine scientists sailed to the Kalayaan Island Group in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to study its biodiversity, they came across an unwanted ocean traveler: man-made garbage.
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