MERGED: Plastic and Styro Ban in Makati, Albay...

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@labyrinthbw

hala boss, basin na offend ka sa 'hipsters' ha...hehehe. that was intended to officials/government who have suddenly laid interest on it...again. dili man gud consistent maong dili na katuohan. basin drama2 lang nang ilaha ba...nanimahong politika. haha

like you said, banning plastics won't be an easy thing...which i agree.
i think banning it would not be the right solution.

i'm not offended
anyways, banning plastics is really tough..like i said, nag evolve na pud ang plastics ron..ang uban naa na tatak nga biodegradable..is this for real?

[vahnhelsing]

unsaon kaha ni pagdispose?
wala raba intawn recycling facility ang pinas para sa styrofoam(sa akong nahibal-an)
usually mao raba sad intawn ni gamit sa packing sa mga exports.

Sa mga experts diha, unsay inyo way sa pagdispose/ recycle sa styro?

[DailyCore]

need to change our habits,when going to the wet market?why dont we bring our own Bag?then we wash it and clean it when we go home..change must come from ourselves..look,if we dont do it, time will come when this plastics will clog all our waterways..and how many water creatures will perish coz of these..

You got that right!

[DailyCore]

[jah_maica09]

this cud really help our environment...keep it up

[DailyCore]

Because of the rising number of LGUs banning plastic (or at least plastic bags) and styro materials, the plastic industry of the Philippines is getting desperate and is expected to resort to dirty tactics and misinformation campaigns. I would not be surprised if the plastic makers will resort to bribing local officials.

[DailyCore]

The viral "20 reasons why I dislike the Philippines" had some focus on plastic! It's not a self-serving move by the guys who created by the people who made the video but rather a sensible wake-up call for Filipinos to realize that plastic are not only environmentally harmful but also problematic litter.



It's high time for Cebu to ban plastic (specifically plastic bags) and encourage everyone to use cloth bags/green bags/bayongs.

[DailyCore]

Do not be fooled by the local plastic industry and its minions!

A misleading comparison: plastic against paper

The recent attempt by the local plastic industry to pit plastic against paper—alleging that the ban on plastic bags has increased the use of paper, and that paper is more unfriendly to the environment because its production entails the cutting of trees—is misleading.

First, local ordinances banning plastic bags do not stipulate the use of paper bags. In fact, it promotes the use of reusable containers. Second, paper, as a container, cannot only come from trees but also from other fibrous materials. And third, containers cannot only be made out of paper.

Plastic bags in the Philippines are not being reprocessed. It is a petrochemical and non-renewable. It has a total carbon footprint of about six kilos carbon dioxide (CO2) per kilo of plastic.

Paper’s carbon footprint is nearly one kilo CO2 per kilo of paper. While it’s true that trees release CO2 when felled for timber and paper, the global industry practice makes it nearly carbon neutral by way of re-growth and recycling. In fact, European forests have grown by over 30 percent since 1950.

To illustrate, Finland has since the 16th century been leading global industry for forest products. If the argument of the local plastic industry is to be believed—that a kilo of paper equals more environment degradation—then Finland should be the most barren nation on earth today. On the contrary, Finland has about 70 percent forest cover to date.

Biomass energy is produced by the pulp and paper industry by burning wood and waste materials from the pulping process to provide energy for the manufacturing process itself. Often, excess heat and power are sold to the local community. This process maintains a closed carbon cycle as opposed to burning fossil fuel, on which the plastic industry is based.

The paper industry has a number of globally respected certification schemes ensuring that the paper would come from a sustainable forest source. The two main auditable certifications that have emerged are the Forest Stewardship Council and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.

In the Philippines, market leader United Pulp and Paper Co. Inc. is an eco-labeled company. As a recipient of the Green Choice Philippines label, the company is able to claim that its products are environment friendly. The company uses 100-percent recycled paper.

As long as the local plastic industry maintains the “it’s-not-my-fault” posturing, even granting that we would eventually be forced to reuse plastic bags or penalized for littering, the plastic bag menace will persist as we would run out of space holding them in our domiciles.

It’s true that unabated deforestation causes floods. But excessive rains and unpredictable climate patterns are the effects of global warming caused mostly by burning fossil fuel. And after the inundation, we see tons of used plastic bags littered all around, whose recycling and reprocessing should have long been enforced as a moral responsibility.

—RENE D. PINEDA JR.,

member of the board,

Ecolabeling Program of the Philippines,

rene.publicist@gmail.com

A misleading comparison: plastic against paper | Inquirer Opinion

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Anti-plastic bag law to be tested at Lagtang market

Talisay City Councilor Bernard Odilao wants the Anti-Plastic Bag Ordinance implemented first at the Lagtang Public Market.

“Mas sayon kung magsugod sa Lagtang Public Market kay sa syudad ma ni,” said Odilao, in an interview, adding that the vendors there can start using paper bags.

Odilao, who is chairman on council committee on environment, said he has already offered the idea to city administrator Richel Bacaltos who assured him he’d meet the vendors to discuss the matter.

The third-term councilor said the ordinance was supposed to be implemented right after it was approved.

In February last year, the city council approved the new law which bans the use of plastic bags in all of the city’s commercial shops.

The purpose, according to Councilor Rodi Cabigas, author of the law, is to minimize the volume of the city’s waste.

Cabigas advised the use of “green bags” instead of the ecologically-unfriendly plastic bags.

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