FACT CHECK: Allegation that PDI publishes ‘fake news’ on armchair shortage is false

The PDI news desk and their beat reporter, Jane Bautista, stand by the veracity of the report of an entire class of Grade 7 students asked to sit on the floor because the chairs in the classroom were insufficient.

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Read more about the article STATEMENT | Paglaum Ecology Network (PEN) on Davao City’s Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Incinerator Project
A woman who collects and sells recyclable materials as a main source of income for her family is dismayed over the recent price drop of the buying price of empty plastic bottles in the junk shops from 5 pesos to 3 pesos per bottle. Even tin-cans , she said, are down to 1 peso a kilo from 3 pesos a kilo. (Medel V. Hernani, davaotoday.com)

STATEMENT | Paglaum Ecology Network (PEN) on Davao City’s Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Incinerator Project

Like many other institutions and groups who have issued their own statements on this issue, we believe that the WTE incinerator project is NOT the correct solution to an urgent problem we are facing now and which could only worsen in the years to come.

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