Read more about the article Spending money on firecrackers? Help in Marawi rehab instead, group says
A vender of firecrackers along the national highway in Digos City shows a variety of firecrackers and pyrotechnics on Thursday, Dec. 29. She said the supply has just arrived from Bocaue, Bulacan, the country's fireworks capital on Wednesday, Dec. 28. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Spending money on firecrackers? Help in Marawi rehab instead, group says

An environmental watchdog urged the public to help in the rehabilitation of Marawi City by not buying firecrackers this yuletide holidays.

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Read more about the article No leachate from P100-M sanitary landfill in Oro ?caused river fish kill
Heavy equipment prepare the piles of garbage before these can be dumped into a "cell" at the sanitary landfill in Sitio Burakan, Barangay Pagalungan, Cagayan de Oro. The sanitary landfill is among the projects initiated by the city government in compliance with the provisions of Republic Act 9003 of the Solid Waste Management Act of 2001. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

No leachate from P100-M sanitary landfill in Oro ?caused river fish kill

Local environment officials have denied that liquid substance from wastes dumped at the sanitary landfill in Sitio Burakan, Barangay Pagalungan here has contaminated one of the city’s major rivers?.

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Read more about the article Gov’t urged to assess Pangi river after ‘leachate’ spill
Photo by Roy Geonzon / Panoramio

Gov’t urged to assess Pangi river after ‘leachate’ spill

A local environmental group here called out to the local government and other concerned agencies to assess and monitor the current water quality of the Matina Pangi river following reported leak coming from a sanitary landfill in New Carmen.

Continue ReadingGov’t urged to assess Pangi river after ‘leachate’ spill