Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:46:58 +0000
E EcoWaste Coalition lamented on Wednesday that their plea for a trash-free Traslacion fell on “deaf ears” as piles of garbage were left along the procession route on Wednesday.
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Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks on Monday, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.
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While Filipinos would take every “Undas” as a chance to visit the grave of departed loved ones in cemeteries, this group has a different agenda.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — A cholera emergency has been declared in Zimbabwe’s capital after 20 people have died, the health minister said Tuesday.
The deaths in Harare have many fearing a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands at the height of the southern African country’s economic problems in 2008. Water and sanitation infrastructure is collapsing.
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BAGUIO CITY—The country is shifting to new technologies that will use trash to generate electricity but the so-called “win-win” solutions to the garbage crisis may end up poisoning the environment, a scientist warned.
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Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday urged Metro Manila mayors to step up efforts to efficiently collect garbage in their respective areas to prevent a further increase in the number of leptospirosis cases in the National Capital Region (NCR).
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