Waste-to-energy ‘safe’ for Filipinos amid health, pollution fears: environment official

Published on May 15, 2026

Amid back‑to‑back trash slides and a landfill fire in one of Southeast Asia’s leakiest waste systems, Philippine environment undersecretary Jonas Leones touts new science‑based safeguards for a waste‑to‑energy buildout in the country.

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