Duterte urged to ratify ban on hazardous waste exports

Environmental health and justice groups on Thursday urged President Duterte to rush the ratification of the Basel Convention Ban Amendment that seeks to protect the Philippines from the dumping of hazardous waste by richer nations. Adopted by the parties to the Basel Convention in 1995 and which finally entered into…

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