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.
