Greenpeace warns against garbage

Tue, 26 Jan 1999 | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): Global environment watchdog Greenpeace International warned the Philippine government on Monday against using incinerators amid a garbage crisis.

"No province or community should serve as a dump site or a toxic sacrifice zone for the disposal of metro Manila's garbage," Greenpeace toxics campaigner in Asia, Von Hernandez, said in a statement.

"Citizens have every right to oppose plans to convert their localities into dumps or incinerator sites, especially since both landfills and incinerators are known to increase rates of cancer and birth defects in their immediate vicinities," he added.

Manila is currently looking for a new site to dump the capital's daily garbage, after residents living near a sanitary landfill in the eastern Manila suburb of Rizal blocked the area to prevent garbage trucks from entering.

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