Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "pollution"

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    • Reef Alert 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 9, 2016, on page A14)
      There is no way attention will be directed at the crying urgency of protecting the coral reefs unless we belabor the issue and repeat ourselves. At the rate coral reefs are being destroyed by human activity or damaged by ...

    • Senate bill to require buyback of plastics 

      Reyes-Estrope, Carmela (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 30, 2018, on page A8)
      The Senate plans to push legislation to require beverage manufacturers to buy back plastic bottles sold at supermarkets and retail and help reduce the country’s plastic pollution. The country, along with China, Indonesia, ...

    • Slave to sachets: How poverty worsens PH plastics crisis 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 4, 2019, on page A1-A9)
      Armed with gloves, rubber boots and a rake, “Mangrove Warrior” Willer Gualva, 68, comes to Freedom Island in the Philippines almost every day to stop it being engulfed by trash. No one lives on the island, yet each morning ...

    • What happens in the oceans affects us all 

      Soriano, Zelda DT (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 29, 2016, on page A17)
      If we are merely looking at the vast expanse of waters from the shores of Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia, or living in the landlocked Lao People’s Democratic Republic, we will tend to think that oceans ...