Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "ocean dumping"

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    • Illegal connections to Boracay drains listed 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, April 27, 2018, on page 1-6)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has released the names of businesses in this resort island that are allegedly dumping wastewater into storm drains. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu read the names of ...

    • Island beaches shut down to save fragile ecosystems 

      Chandran, Rina (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 29, 2018, on page A4)
      Not only Boracay Island but also Maya Bay will be off limits to visitors this year as officials seek to protect ecosystems crumbling from warming seas and unchecked sprawl, despite the risk to tourism revenues and tens of ...

    • Japan may dump radioactive water into the sea-minister 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 11, 2019, on page A14)
      Japan's Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada said on ...

    • Koko, Zubiri pushing plastic use reduction 

      Sy, Marvin (The Philippine Star, June 8, 2018, on page 9)
      Senators Aquilino Pimentel III and Juan Miguel Zubiri are pushing for a reduction in the use of plastic in the country amid reports that the Philippines is one of the biggest sources of plastic waste dumped into the oceans. ...

    • LLDA eyes shutdown of 5 more firms 

      Ramirez, Robertzon (The Philippine Star, July 3, 2018, on page 11)
      The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) is investigating five firms for operating without necessary permits and violating environmental laws. LLDA general manager Jaime Medina said the five firms may be shut down after ...

    • Manila Bay cleanup 

      Ortuoste, Jenny (Manila Standard, January 31, 2019, on page A4-A5)
      The cleanup was led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, with similar efforts to be exerted in Pampanga, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Bataan in Region III, and Cavite in Region IV-A. To maintain cleanliness, ...

    • Manufacturers clutching at straws as war on plastic rages 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Panay News, July 4, 2018, on page B3-B6)
      Under pressure from activists, the European Union, Britain, India and even fast food giants like McDonald’s have all made some headway towards bringing the use of plastic straws to an end. According to peer-reviewed US ...

    • Manufacturers urged to help protect seas, freshwater areas 

      Romero, Paolo (The Philippine Star, December 28, 2017, on page B4)
      Sen. Cynthia Villar has renewed her call to the public to help protect and maintain the cleanliness of the country's seas and freshwater areas, which are sources of food and other resources. Villar, who chairs the Senate ...

    • MM mayors vow to help relocate Bay area families 

      Zurbano, Joel E. (Manila Standard, February 6, 2019, on page A1-A2)
      Mayors in Metro Manila have agreed to help the government relocate at least 220,000 squatter families living along Manila Bay. In a meeting held at the Metro Manila Development Authority main office in Makati City, the ...

    • More Chinese ships may be dumping waste at sea 

      Atienza, Kyle Aristophere T. (BusinessWorld, July 16, 2021, on page S1/12)
      Chinese ships could also be dumping human wastes in other parts of the South China Sea claimed by the Philippines, US-based geospatial imagery firm Simularity, Inc. said on Thursday. Simularity’s earlier report showing ...

    • No more illegal dump sites in Sasmuan riverbanks 

      Regala, Franco G. (Manila Bulletin, February 1, 2015, on page 14)
      There are no more illegal dump sites in Sasmuan and no more garbage on the riverbanks along Pampanga River going out to Manila Bay. Sasmuan Mayor Nardo Velasco confirmed this yesterday after he personally led the massive ...

    • Nurturing a sustainable partnership 

      (Malaya, October 1, 2018, on page B7)
      The Philippines ranks third in plastic pollution in terms of dumping plastic into our oceans. Because of this, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines, has been closely involved in coastal cleanups and other ...

    • PCSO partners with Navy, DENR for coastal cleanup 

      Busque, Shelly (The Manila Times, December 26, 2018, on page D3)
      Marine pollution — as people know but do not really pay attention to – is any human-made material that is thrown, abandoned or amassed on the coast, bay, beach, waterways that lead to the ocean, or in the ocean itself. ...

    • PH gives China 'presumption of good faith' in waste dumping issue 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (SunStar Philippines, July 15, 2021, on page 3)
      Malacañang is awaiting results on the probe into reports that Chinese vessels are dumping raw sewage into contested areas of the South China Sea. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque emphasized that it is important to ...

    • PH tries to turn tide on fish loss 

      Reuters (Panay News, November 30, 2018, on page B1-B6)
      One of the biggest threats to the sustainability of marine life is plastic pollution and the Philippines is now the third highest contributor to plastic pollution in the world's oceans, according to Greenpeace Philippines. ...

    • Phl major contributor to plastic in oceans 

      Mateo, Janvic (Philippine Star, May 3, 2018, on page B8)
      In the report focusing on land-based strategies to remove plastic waste in oceans, Ocean Conservancy said the Philippines is among five countries that contribute more than half of the plastic waste that enter the oceans.

    • Plastic 

      (Panay News, June 8, 2018, on page 8)
      Plastic waste prevention and the genuine enforcement of best practices in ecological solid waste management sans incineration and open burning is the way to go to tackle the plastic scourge that has now become a global ...

    • Plastic pollution builds up in Arctic waters 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, April 27, 2017, on page 12)
      Even though few people live in the Artic, some seas in the region are heavily polluted with plastic because of an Atlantic ocean current which dumps debris there, researchers said Wednesday. Scientists aboard the globe ...

    • Plastic pollution in PH: Why so much waste ends up in oceans 

      PN; South China Morning Post (Manila Standard, November 3, 2018, on page B8)
      Masses of plastic trash swirling in waterways, garbage clogging drainage canals and huge stinking dumpsites are among the most visible manifestations of the waste crisis in the Philippines. A 2015 report on plastic pollution ...

    • Plastic trash found littering Mariana Trench in submarine dive 

      Reuters (The Philippine Star, May 15, 2019, on page 19)
      On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor and explorer found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: trash. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, ...