August 31st, 2008 
Von by Ching M. Alano
With the toxins in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the very air we breathe, it comes like a breath of fresh air that the Philippines, in an earthshaking move, is addressing the serious health and environmental threats from the country’s stockpiles of obsolete industrial chemicals found mainly in old electrical transformers.
In cooperation with the United Nations, representatives of the government, industry, and public interest non-government organizations (NGOs) recently launched a novel initiative that involves the setting up of a non-combustion facility for destroying persistent organic pollutants (POPs), known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). (more…)
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