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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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BACK TO BUSINESS. A street vendor plies his festival-themed headpieces and necklaces at the main thoroughfares of Davao City during the Indak-Indak sa Kadayawan Saturday, August 20. This year's celebration of Kadayawan sa Davao is conducted face-to-face, a first after two years of holding it online due to the pandemic. (davaotoday.com photo by Bern Pormento)

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A street vendor plies his festival-themed headpieces and necklaces at the main thoroughfares of Davao City during the Indak-Indak sa Kadayawan Saturday, August 20. This year's celebration of Kadayawan sa Davao is conducted face-to-face, a first after two years of holding it online due to the pandemic. (davaotoday.com photo by Bern Pormento)

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