MANILA, Philippines — The EcoWaste Coalition and other environmental organizations are seeking to ban the manufacture and use of cancer-causing per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which contaminate the natural environment. EcoWaste along with Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS), Mother Earth Foundation, Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP), Malaysia, Taiwan Watch Institute (TWI), and the International Pollutants Elimination Network-Southeast and East Asia (IPEN-SEA) conducted a webinar to emphasize the need to ban PFAS.

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