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Groups Back Phase-Out of Toxic “Forever Chemicals” to Protect Women and Other Vulnerable Sectors
1 June 2022, Quezon City. Various civil society groups have joined forces to call for a global ban on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) ahead of World Environment Day. Also known as the “forever chemicals,” PFAS do not break down…
EcoWaste Coalition: Break Illicit Trade of Toxic Beauty Creams with Mercury
26 May 2022, Quezon City. In spite of a public health warning issued by the Philippine government almost five years ago, local dealers of mercury-containing “beauty creams” from South Asia continue to ply their poison cosmetics. “Despite the explicit threats…
From Baguio to Davao: Banned Mercury-Laden Cosmetics Sold With Impunity
29 April 2022, Quezon City. Skin whitening cosmetics containing mercury, a toxic chemical, still abound in store shelves in open defiance of the national and global efforts to make these hazardous products a thing of the past. Despite the 2020…
Asian NGOs Call on Governments to Regulate Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) in Products
6 April 2022, Davao City/Quezon City. Non-government organizations (NGOs) from South, Southeast and East Asia, including the Philippines, have called on national governments to adopt and strictly implement regulations to address endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in products. The NGOs are participating…
Philippine NGOs Push for Children’s Protection from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in School Supplies
24 March 2022. As thousands of schools brace for limited face-to-face classes amid declining COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, two non-profit groups raised the alarm over the sale of erasers containing endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), particularly phthalates. The EcoWaste Coalition and…
EcoWaste Coalition Joins Clamor for a Strong Plastics Treaty
On the eve of a historic United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), the EcoWaste Coalition reiterated its unity with the global plea urging delegates to agree to negotiate for a strong treaty with binding controls and targets that will end the…
Environmental Groups Urge Governments to Negotiate for a Strong Treaty Addressing the Planetary Plastic Pollution Crisis
21 February 2022. Philippine environmental groups working for a zero waste and toxics-free society have expressed support for a robust negotiation mandate as governments from over 190 countries meet next week to tackle plastic pollution, including microplastics, and other pressing…
EcoWaste Coalition Rallies Support for Action to Eliminate Highly Toxic and Persistent PCBs
An environmental health and justice organization has called for people’s support to the government-led efforts to eliminate a highly toxic class of obsolete industrial chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) that were widely used in old electrical equipment such as transformers…
EcoWaste Coalition and Malate Catholic Church to 18th Philippine Congress: Green Solutions not Red Flags
EcoWaste Coalition and the Malate Catholic Church convened on Monday at Rajah Sulayman Park to call out the 18th Congress on passing bills that are “false solutions”. The Senate and House of Representatives (HoR) already passed on third reading the…
Philippine NGOs Back Elimination of Toxic Plastic Chemical Additives in the Stockholm Convention
5 February 2022, Davao City/Quezon City. Two environmental health organizations have expressed support to a groundbreaking decision by a United Nations expert committee recommending global action against certain toxic chemical plastic additives under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants…
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