(Part 2) Part 1: Low consumption, high leakage: The Philippines’ plastic paradox MANILA, Philippines — The problem with ...

Plastic bins overflow, trash sacks line the streets, and improvised storage areas continue to fill as residents wait for collection trucks that have yet to arrive. In Barangay 76-A Bucana, 47-year-old ...

The fatal collapse of a garbage landfill in Cebu has also exposed lax enforcement and poor waste management A deadly garbage avalanche in central Philippines last week, which killed 19 and led to more ...

Few days after Mayor Nestor Archival met with city councilors to discuss Cebu City’s worsening garbage problem, the City ...

MANILA, Philippines — An avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers in low-slung buildings at a landfill in the Philippines, killing two people, injuring a dozen, and leaving 36 others ...

As the Cebu City Council once again confronted the city’s mounting garbage problem yesterday, Vice Mayor Tomas Osmeña revealed that the city government has secured financial backing for the proposed ...

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) General Manager Nicholas Torre III on Wednesday called for public discipline in waste disposal after massive garbage buildup in the Pasig River forced ...

A catastrophic dumpsite collapse buried scavengers collecting recyclables at a landfill in the Philippines’ Rizal province on Feb. 20, following a similar incident in Cebu in January that killed 36 ...