A month after the 2025 Midterm Elections in the Philippines, streets, trees, and walls are yet again covered in trash—previous campaign paraphernalia—that overwhelm both the people and the environment.
This collaborative story between Ologist PH, Media Commoner, and Sigla Research Center explores how shit posting adds to the layers of complexity of the fake news epidemic in the Philippines, especially during the elections period.
So-called “green reclamation” efforts suggest that more sustainable methods could be explored to conduct reclamation projects, or that perhaps rehabilitation can co-exist with reclamation. However, rehabilitation and reclamation are two distinct concepts that do not easily go hand in hand.
