Every day, well before dawn breaks over Manila, a small army of human scavengers make their way from the squalid slums they call home to the gates of the city’s biggest garbage dump. Armed with ...

Who would have thought the Payatas dump in Quezon City become a major tourist attraction? After the 2000 Payatas tragedy, many thought Quezon City would never rise from the nightmare. Unknown to many, ...

NEARING the brink of its capacity, the Payatas sanitary landfill will be closed by the end of this year, while the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has yet to find a suitable ...

Every day almost 500 trucks loaded with bags of waste grind up the track to the Payatas landfill site, overlooking Quezon City, the most densely populated municipality in the Manila urban area.

Residents of an urban poor resettlement area beside the Payatas sanitary landfill in Quezon City, have asked the Supreme Court to stop its operation, citing hazards it poses to their health and the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Dolores Alano, her face gaunt, kept a sad vigil last week on the ...

In his Aug. 31 column, Neal Cruz claimed that the Payatas garbage dump is fast becoming another Smokey Mountain. He seems to have based his observation on a decade-old (at least) situation. Allow us ...

RELATIVES of the victims of Payatas dump site landslide had lost their bid to compel the Quezon City government to pay a total of P188.1 million in damages for the death of their loved ones. While the ...

On July 10, 2000, a “trash-slide” at the Payatas dump in Quezon City killed more than 200 persons and buried thousands of homes. The 50-foot mountain of packed trash collapsed after a week of heavy ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. With the Payatas landfill still closed, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is sending Quezon City's ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) wants the closure of the Payatas sanitary landfill at the soonest possible time, hopefully by the first quarter of 2017 ...

MANILA, Philippines – The repository of all the garbage generated by Quezon City, the largest city in Metro Manila, can no longer be used after June 30, 2014. In fact, the contract of the city with ...