Rubbish piles up on a residential street in Birmingham, England, Monday, April 7, 2025, amid an ongoing refuse workers' strike in the city. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) LONDON (AP) â€" There is a stink rising over the United Kingdom's second-largest city.Garbage has piled up for a month...
BACOLOD CITY – A 24-year-old man was shot and killed by his relative over garbage dumped in a right-of-way in Purok Narra, Barangay Lopez Jaena, Murcia, Negros Occidental on Sunday, April 6.Police Capt. Honey Labaro, deputy chief of the Murcia Municipal Police Station, said the victim Edgar...
ZAMBOANGA CITY â€" The city government has purchased 10 new dump trucks to improve garbage collection efforts here.MAYOR John Dalipe, with Rep. Mannix Dalipe and city councilors, receive 10 garbage trucks from Isuzu Philippines to improve waste collection and disposal in Zamboanga City....
CEBU CITY – Officials of a barangay in Mandaue City, Cebu have cried foul over the recall of city-owned motor vehicles and city-paid job order employees for garbage disposal services.JESUS Neri Jr., barangay captain of Guizo, Mandaue City, shows a pile of uncollected garbage in their barangay....
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The provincial government of La Union, through its Environment and Natural Resources Office (ENRO), has put up giant creative trash bins in the key tourist destinations in the province to sustain cleanliness and foster environmental consciousness among tourists and...
(MANILA BULLETIN) House Minority Leader 1-RIDER Party-list Rep. Rodge Gutierrez has urged Filipinos to employ the grade school approach when it comes to helping the government solve the flood problem. What Gutierrez means by this is Filipinos should follow...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has slammed as "severe disregard for human rights" a barangay (village) ordinance in Bangued, Abra that proposed "execution or death penalty" for the third offense of illegal garbage dumping.In a statement, the CHR said the ordinance and the subsequent posting of...
BANGUED, Abra â€" Six officials of Barangay Calaba here were suspended for 90 days over a controversial notice showing an image of a gun as a penalty for those who disobey a rule on dumping garbage.A NOTICE in Bangued, Abra shows the punishments for dumping garbage. The notice was printed...
A garbage bin overflows with mixed trash thrown by visitors of the popular Grotto of the Our Lady of Lourdes in Bulacan. (photo: EcoWaste Coalition) Environmental watchdog EcoWaste Coalition has expressed concern over the huge trail of garbage left in some of the roads leading to, and even...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The city government is hounded by the issue of heaps of garbage on the main road going to the sanitary landfill in Barangay Pagalungan here.But the city government said that these are recyclable materials from junk shops.A GARBAGE truck arrives at the sanitary landfill in...
Deputy Speaker Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar (Rep. Villar's office) Even garbage collectors and their fellow waste workers should enjoy protecting by law, especially when it comes to healthcare. One potential law for the...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Several residents here have complained that their garbage has not been collected for weeks. A TRUCK from a private volunteer collects garbage from different areas in Cagayan de Oro City on January 16, 2023. The city government has tapped private entities to collect...
