BAN Toxics
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📰 Update · 6d
Compassionate Gold Project Studies Mercury-Free Alternatives to Gold Processing in Benguet
📰 Update · 1w
BAN Toxics Conducts River Waste and Bycatch Analysis in Meycauayan River
📰 Update · 1w
“Who will really benefit from Pax Silica?” Envi Group BAN Toxics Asks As It Joins Multisectoral Network Against the US-Led Initiative
📰 Update · 1w
Benguet Small-Scale Miners Undergo Training on Formalization Requirements
📰 Update · 4w
‘Sea of Garbage’ Exposes the Country’s Worsening Waste Management Crisis – BAN Toxics
📰 Update · Aug 7
Infographics | Is E-Waste Hazardous?
📰 Update · Aug 1
SBMA Not Competent Authority To Decide on Illegal E-Waste Shipments from US; BOC and EMB Should Lead Inspection Together With Envi Groups
📰 Update · Aug 1
River Waste and Bycatch Analysis, Community Assessment to Strengthen River and Ocean Cleanup Efforts
Teaching Gold Miners to Work Without Mercury
Waste & Recycling🇵🇭 Philippines
Small-scale gold miners handle mercury because it works and they were never shown anything else — so the argument that changed minds was not health, it was that gravity methods recover more gold.
2,019yearYear BAN Toxics mapped illicit mercury flows in Mindanao
4yearsYears after Minamata ratification with mercury use still persisting