Cabcom Complex, inside former US Clark Air Base, highly toxic contaminated area, Angeles

Unique identifier: GP09F0

Type: Image

Shoot date: 01/12/1999

Locations: Manila, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Christian Åslund

Size: 5448px × 3563px 10MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

Containers

Shoot:

Toxics Documentation (Philippines : 1999)

Wagner Aviation complex, inside Clark Air Base, high level of PCB. When the United States left its former military bases in Clark and Subic in the Philippines in 1991, it soon became apparent that the Americans also left behind a legacy of toxic wastes and contamination brought about by their use, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials including POPs such as PCBs and organochlorine pesticides. Payatas open dumpsite in Quezon City, located beside Metro Manila water source. People living in the dumpsite.

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