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Philippine Toxic Trackers Go Store Hopping to Stop Sale of Mercury Cosmetics
25 August 2022, Quezon City. To mark the fifth year of the Minamata Convention on Mercury’s entry into force, the EcoWaste Coalition last week went store hopping in Quezon City, Philippines to promote business compliance to an ordinance prohibiting cosmetics…
Groups Welcome Company’s Decision to Stop Selling Talc-Based Baby Powder Worldwide
19 August 2022, Quezon City. Non-government organizations welcomed the decision of a US transnational corporation to phase out by 2023 its talc-based baby powder from the global market, including the Philippines. As it announced last August 11, Johnson & Johnson…
Environmental and Health Leaders Line Up Priority Issues for PBBM’s First SONA
12 July 2022, Quezon City. Civil society leaders have identified priority issues that they would like President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. to enunciate during his first State of the Nation Address (SONA), including policies and strategies that will advance climate action…
EcoWaste Coalition Seeks Mayors’ Cooperation to End Trade of Perilous Cosmetics with Mercury
3 July 2022, Quezon City. In a bid to safeguard their constituents from health-damaging mercury exposures, the EcoWaste Coalition has reached out to the newly-installed local chief executives in 19 cities in Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and the National Capital Region.…
Civil Society Leaders Present “Green Wish List” for a Healthy Environment and Democracy
28 June 2022, Quezon City. Ahead of the Philippine presidential inauguration this coming Thursday, civil society leaders made a pitch for priority action points to ensure a healthy environment and democracy under the new administration. Through a “green wish list,”…
EcoWaste Coalition Warns Paint Consumers vs. Leaded Products
24 June 2022, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition is warning consumers against the purchase and use of paint products containing lead, a hazardous chemical banned in paint manufacturing. The group aired its latest lead paint warning after…
Civil Society Groups Find Hazardous Chemicals BPA/BPS in Thermal Paper Receipts
20 June 2022, Davao City/Quezon City. Three civil society groups today urged the government and business sectors to protect workers and the general public from the adverse effects of exposure to endocrine-disrupting and cancer-linked chemicals present in thermal transaction receipts.…
EcoWaste Coalition Bares Continued Sale in Manila of Kidney-Damaging Cosmetics with Mercury
As National Kidney Month is observed this June in line with Presidential Proclamation No. 184, a toxics watchdog group has revealed the continued sale in the City of Manila of skin whitening cosmetics contaminated with mercury that is known to…
EcoWaste Coalition Hails Global Ban on Highly Toxic Chemical PFHxS
11 June 2022, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition lauded the decision by the world’s governments to add PFHxS to the Stockholm Convention’s list of banned persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with no exemptions. PFHxS, or perfluorohexane sulfonic acid,…
Groups Insist on Stricter Limits for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Waste
5 June 2022, Quezon City. As World Environment Day is celebrated, non-profit groups campaigning for a zero waste and toxics-free society pressed the Government of the Philippines to back stricter limits for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste to avoid…
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