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EU Parliament to phase out plastic water bottles

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 13 08:55 AM

Strasbourg, France - The European Parliament has told its lawmakers and staff to set an example for EU citizens by no longer drinking water from plastic bottles by next year. Read more »

Thai turtle's plastic-filled stomach highlights ocean crisis

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 12 06:55 AM

Startling images of plastic shreds, rubber bands and other debris found jammed in the stomach of a green turtle in Thailand have highlighted the crisis of waste-strewn seas following the widely publicized death of a whale this month. Read more »

Polluted waters

George Calvelo, ABS CBN News
Posted at Jun 06 01:25 PM

A woman prepares food above polluted waters of Tondo, Manila on Tuesday. Read more »

'Beat plastic pollution'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 06:58 PM

Wastepickers wash recovered plastics for recycling on a creek in Quezon City, Tuesday.  Read more »

Southeast Asia's plastic 'addiction' blights world's oceans

Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Juarawee Kittisilpa, Reuters
Posted at Jun 05 03:45 PM

Five Asian countries - China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam and Thailand - accounted for up to 60 percent of the plastic waste leaking into the ocean, according to a 2015 report by the environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment. Read more »

15 bahay sa gilid ng Laguna Lake giniba

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 03:26 PM

Binaklas ng mga awtoridad ang 15 bahay at maliliit na tindahan sa gilid ng Lawa ng Laguna na sakop ng Taytay, Rizal ngayong Martes.    Read more »

A prayer before the deep

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 02:08 PM

A boy sits still in front of the coming waves as children play at the BASECO shoreline in Tondo, Manila, Monday.  Read more »

Dead whale spotlights Thailand’s losing battle against plastic

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Jun 04 06:35 PM

BANGKOK - A pilot whale that died after ingesting rubbish has highlighted Thailand's losing battle against plastic, said conservationists who called for urgent measures to cut back on pollution that also worsens urban flooding. Read more »

Delhi slum drowning in plastic as Environment Day focuses on India

Abhaya Srivastava, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 04 06:27 PM

NEW DELHI - A sea of plastic spreads through the New Delhi slum of Taimur Nagar, a symbol of the grime and waste that makes the Indian capital one of the world's most polluted cities. Read more »

Plastic bags jam stomach of dead pilot whale in Thailand

Reuters
Posted at Jun 03 09:33 PM

The whale spit out five plastic bags on Friday and later died, the Marine and Coastal Resources Department said on its website.   Read more »

EU moves to ban single-use plastics

Reuters
Posted at May 28 09:46 PM

The European Commission on Monday proposed banning single-use plastic products such as cotton buds and plastic straws and putting the burden of cleaning up waste on manufacturers in an effort to reduce marine litter. Read more »

Cheap rides at risk in drive to clean up Southeast Asia streets

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at May 26 10:42 PM

Manila aims to phase out about two-thirds of jeepneys, but the government denies it is unfairly targeting drivers and operators. Read more »

Cimatu: 16 hotels, establishments built illegal pipes, discharge water beneath Boracay beach

Joyce Ann Clavecillas, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 26 02:18 PM

BORACAY - At least 16 hotels and tourism establishments here installed their own discharge pipes and flushed liquids beneath the island's white sand beachfront, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said Saturday. Read more »

Off color: Pollution turns India's white marble Taj Mahal green

Sunil Kataria, Reuters
Posted at May 22 08:59 AM

India's white-marble Taj Mahal is turning yellow and green as the 17th century mausoleum weathers filthy air in the world's eighth-most polluted city. Read more »

No Palace order stopping West Cove resort demolition: DILG

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 16 10:29 AM

The Department of the Interior and Local Government denied Wednesday that Malacañang has given the order to suspend the demolition of the controversial West Cove Resort in Boracay island.  Read more »

Europe struggles as plastics pollution piles up

Reuters
Posted at May 11 03:36 PM

OSLO - Europe has sent just over half the plastic waste it used to ship to China to other parts of Asia since Beijing's environmental crackdown closed the world's biggest recycling market in January. The knotty problem is what to do with the rest. Read more »

700 kilo ng basura naipon sa mga coral rock formation sa Ilocos Norte

Denis Agcaoili, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 08 08:53 PM

Nadiskubre ng ilang environmental groups na naipon ang 700 kilo ng basura sa isang bahagi ng mga coral rock formation sa Barangay Pangil sa Currimao, Ilocos Norte.  Read more »

Tubong naglalabas ng maruming tubig sa White Beach sa Boracay, hinukay na

Nony Basco, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 04 11:06 PM

Hinukay ng mga kawani ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) at lokal na pamahalaan ng Malay, Aklan ang isang tubo naglalabas ng maitim at mabahong tubig sa White Beach, Biyernes. Read more »

Boracay residents built own drainage pipe, village chief says

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 02 05:18 PM

A pipe that was discharging foul-smelling liquid on the beach was built by villagers as part of a drainage system, a local official who approved the project said Wednesday. Read more »

Gov't cracks down on Boracay 'colorum' vehicles

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 02 03:09 PM

Regulators on Wednesday urged driver and operators here to surrender unregistered vehicles on the island.    Read more »