Greenpeace Philippines - Cebu Volunteers

16/05/2026

Welcome to Southeast Asia 🌏, where the beaches are pristine 🏖, the food is delicious 🥭, the people are warm 👫… and the plastic pollution is brought to you by greedy billionaire corporations. 🤑

Our region should never be treated as a dumping ground for single-use plastics. ASEAN leaders must stop corporations from drowning our shared home in waste.

Cut plastic production. Hold polluters accountable. Protect Southeast Asia.

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12/05/2026

From Cebu to Rizal to Navotas, landfill tragedies are showing the human cost of a broken waste system. Communities are carrying the burden of plastic pollution, toxic emissions, unsafe disposal, and a crisis driven by plastic overproduction and fossil fuel dependence.

ASEAN leaders must not let this continue, not in the Philippines and not across Southeast Asia. Our SEAblings deserve a future where people are protected, polluters are held accountable, and solutions begin at the source: less plastic, less fossil fuel, and more support for just, people-centered solutions like reuse and refill.

11/05/2026

We note the release of the peaceful protesters detained during the opening of the ASEAN Summit last May 8, 2026. Their release, however, does not erase the fact that they still face charges, nor the urgent message they carried: our leaders must act now on the worsening waste crisis, plastic pollution, and continued dependence on fossil fuels.

As Greenpeace Philippines – Cebu volunteers, we stand in solidarity with the activists who peacefully protested to remind ASEAN leaders that every person has the constitutional right to fight for a balanced and healthful ecology.

Peaceful protest is not a threat. Environmental destruction is. The real issue remains: communities across the region continue to suffer from climate impacts, waste pollution, and corporate-driven fossil fuel expansion.

We call for the charges against the peaceful activists to be dropped. ASEAN leaders must move beyond statements and take concrete action to reduce plastic production, phase out fossil fuels, and uphold environmental justice for present and future generations.

10/05/2026

Across Southeast Asia, landfills and dumpsites are collapsing, burning, and poisoning communities.

These are not isolated tragedies. They are the cost of a broken system built on plastic overproduction, fossil fuel dependence, and corporate impunity.

When Greenpeace Southeast Asia activists peacefully called on ASEAN leaders to act, they faced charges.

The real culprits, however, are not peaceful activists or people demanding change. They are the billionaire corporations flooding our communities with single-use plastics and harming them with mounting waste, while people pay with their health, livelihoods, and lives.

End the plastic crisis. Hold polluters accountable. Drop the charges against our activists.

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09/05/2026

If speaking up for communities is treated as a crime, who is the law really protecting?

Four Greenpeace activists peacefully called for urgent action on the climate and plastic crises during the ASEAN Summit in Cebu. Now, they face criminal charges, while the corporations driving climate destruction and plastic pollution remain largely untouched.

Peaceful protest is not the threat. The real threat is the continued failure to protect communities from toxic pollution, climate disasters, and corporate harm. Greenpeace Southeast Asia calls on Philippine authorities to drop the charges and uphold the right to peaceful protest.

09/05/2026

"DAPAT KUMUHA MUNA KAYO NG PERMIT" -- sabi ng mga kritiko sa naganap na peaceful protest sa Cebu

Apat na Greenpeace activists ang dinetain ng kapulisan matapos magsagawa ng isang silent protest sa pagbubukas ng ASEAN Summit sa Cebu. Layon ng protesta na iparating sa atensyon ng mga pinuno ng ASEAN ang lumalalang isyu ng plastic pollution sa rehiyon, kasabay rin ang masamang epekto ng fossil fuel dependence tulad ng lumalalang climate crisis.

Samantala, hindi naman kinakailangang kumuha ng PERMIT ng malalaking kompanya para sirain ang kalikasan, lunurin tayo sa plastic pollution, at magdulot ng oil spills na nakaaapekto sa mga komunidad.

Imbes na patahimikin ang mga boses na nagsusulong ng pagprotekta sa kalikasan, mas dapat pagtuonan ng pansin ng pamahalaan ang paglutas sa ugat ng mga isyung kinakaharap ng taumbayan at panagutin ang mga kompanyang sumisira sa ating planeta.

END THE PLASTIC CRISIS

STOP FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENCE

RELEASE OUR ACTIVISTS NOW
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"DAPAT KUMUHA MUNA KAYO NG PERMIT" -- sabi ng mga kritiko sa naganap na peaceful protest sa Cebu

Apat na Greenpeace activists ang dinetain ng kapulisan matapos magsagawa ng isang silent protest sa pagbubukas ng ASEAN Summit sa Cebu. Layon ng protesta na iparating sa atensyon ng mga pinuno ng ASEAN ang lumalalang isyu ng plastic pollution sa rehiyon, kasabay rin ang masamang epekto ng fossil fuel dependence tulad ng lumalalang climate crisis.

Samantala, hindi naman kinakailangang kumuha ng PERMIT ng malalaking kompanya para sirain ang kalikasan, lunurin tayo sa plastic pollution, at magdulot ng oil spills na nakaaapekto sa mga komunidad.

Imbes na patahimikin ang mga boses na nagsusulong ng pagprotekta sa kalikasan, mas dapat pagtuonan ng pansin ng pamahalaan ang paglutas sa ugat ng mga isyung kinakaharap ng taumbayan at panagutin ang mga kompanyang sumisira sa ating planeta.

END THE PLASTIC CRISIS

STOP FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENCE

RELEASE OUR ACTIVISTS NOW
🌏✊

08/05/2026

Immediate release of the Greenpeace Southeast Asia Activists!

08/05/2026

‼️BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace activists were taken to a police station after peacefully calling on ASEAN leaders to act on the plastic crisis and fossil fuel dependence.

On the opening day of the 48th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, Philippines, Greenpeace activists held a peaceful protest urging ASEAN leaders to end the plastic and waste crisis, hold polluting corporations accountable, and move the region away from the fossil fuel dependence driving climate harm.

Instead of silencing peaceful protest, ASEAN leaders must listen to the message: communities across Southeast Asia are already being harmed by landfill collapses, toxic fires, polluted air, and plastic pollution they did not create.

The real danger is not peaceful activism. The real danger is a system that allows corporations to keep flooding our region with single-use plastics while communities pay the price with their health, livelihoods, and even their lives.

Greenpeace calls for the immediate release of all activists and urges ASEAN leaders to act instead on the plastic crisis at hand: reduce plastic production, phase out problematic single-use plastics, strengthen waste prevention policies, hold corporate polluters accountable, and support a just transition to reuse.

As of this writing, our activists are currently at the Lapu-Lapu Police Station 2 and have not been permitted to leave.

29/04/2026

Greenpeace Philippines, through its volunteers in Cebu, joined environmental and labor groups in calling on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to immediately release the findings of its investigation into the Binaliw landfill collapse, more than three months after the tragedy that claimed 39 lives.

Read more here:
https://act.gp/foi-denr7

22/04/2026

Overch naman sa tawa!

Alphabet challenge edition! 🔠🌏

18/01/2026

𝐈𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭! 📢‎
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‎Yesterday, January 17, 2026, , 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 – 𝐂𝐞𝐛𝐮 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 together with our partner 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐀𝐏) 𝐂𝐞𝐛𝐮 and the residents of Labogon, Mandaue, came together for a mural painting activity as the 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐲 finally enters into force.
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‎The youth took part in a drawing session, proudly pasting their artworks 🎨 onto the mural, while older community members added their voices by signing relevant petitions. 🖌️
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‎The overall activity reflected the community's awareness of our oceans and a shared desire to call for our government to pass laws that protect our seas from further harm, including the worsening threat of plastic pollution.
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‎ #𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 #𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 #𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 #𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐲 #𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞

Photos by Zhynnon Mantos