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Toxic Dumping
Philippine environmentalists demand Canada takes back 200m kg of household waste
Friday, 01 February 2019
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/31/philippine-environmentalists-demand-canada-takes-back-200-million/
A coalition of Philippine environmentalists have demanded that Canada take its trash back six years after more than 200 million kg of household waste was dumped in the Southeast Asian nation.
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Ebru Television Report on Mercury Use in Gold Mining in Kenya

Ebru Television did a report on mercury use by miners in Kenya, who are using it to extract gold from the soil.

Watch the report here.

Representatives from IPEN Participating Organization Centre for Environmental Justice and Development (CEJAD) are included in the video. See related reports they have completed here:
- Read more about Ebru Television Report on Mercury Use in Gold Mining in Kenya
ChemSec's fun new video highlights non-toxic alternatives

The nonprofit organization ChemSec has created a fantastic new video about non-toxic alternatives to hazardous flame retardants:
- Read more about ChemSec's fun new video highlights non-toxic alternatives
Ocean Pollutants
SDG Knowledge Weekly: Oceans and Decarbonization
Monday, 28 January 2019
http://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/policy-briefs/sdg-knowledge-weekly-oceans...
This SDG Knowledge Weekly spotlights recent findings and platforms on SDG 14 (life below water). The brief also reviews a few items on decarbonization towards SDG 13 (climate action), which researchers note plays a key role in ocean-related challenges.
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Toxic Dumping
EcoWaste Coalition Hails Re-Export of South Korean Garbage as “Triumph for Environmental Justice”
Friday, 25 January 2019
Press Release
Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental/Quezon City. The waste and pollution watch group, EcoWaste Coalition, applauded the departure from the Philippines of 51 containers of illegal garbage exports from South Korea extolling the move as a “triumph for environmental justice, morality and the rule of law.”
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Heavy Metals
Lead in paints: the challenge continues
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
IPEN and its partner organisations are continuing the fight against the use of lead chromates in paints.
The legal challenge brought in 2017 by IPEN, the International Chemical Secretariat (ChemSec), ClientEarth and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is still ongoing. The case challenges a decision of the European Commission allowing the use of two highly hazardous pigments in road markings and painting industrial machines.
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Toxic Waste
51 containers of garbage shipped back to South Korea
Manila Bulletin, Philippines
Monday, 14 January 2019
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/01/14/garbage-illegally-exported-to-misamis-oriental-shipped-back-to-south-korea/
The 51 containers of illegal garbage languishing at the Mindanao International Container Terminal (MICT) in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental were finally shipped back Sunday to South Korea where the assorted wastes came from several months ago.
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Ocean Pollutants
Opinion: Defusing the toxic timebomb of invisible ocean pollutants
Wednesday, 09 January 2019
https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-defusing-the-toxic-timebomb-of-invisi...
Life on earth is utterly dependent on healthy oceans. They produce much of the oxygen we breathe, cycle the carbon dioxide, and regulate the weather we experience. Perhaps it is the vastness of the oceans that has made us complacent about its capacity to keep absorbing our toxic wastes?

After a year of global ocean meetings, the international community is finally facing up to the reality of polluted, depleted oceans.

Policies to protect the marine environment that do not address the finite nature of our world will fail.

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Toxic Waste
Fixing NCPO legacy of conflict, pollution
Tuesday, 08 January 2019
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1604434/fixing-ncpo-legacy-of-conflict-pollution
The military regime's policy to promote industrial development with the use of the drastic Section 44, which bypasses regular laws and regulations, has won a thumbs-up from investors while also intensifying pollution and local conflicts.
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Ebru Television Report on Mercury Use in Gold Mining in Kenya

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EcoWaste Coalition Hails Re-Export of South Korean Garbage as “Triumph for Environmental Justice”

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Lead in paints: the challenge continues

51 containers of garbage shipped back to South Korea

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