A councilor proposed a measure Tuesday asking grocery and shopping stores in the city to forego plastic bags and instead promote reusable shopping bags to help address the garbage problem in the locality. Second District Councilor Diosdado Mahipus Angelo R. Mahipus Jr. called on local establishme
A councilor proposed a measure Tuesday asking grocery and shopping stores in the city to forego plastic bags and instead promote reusable shopping bags to help address the garbage problem in the locality.
Mahipus said among the solutions seen to address the plastic waste problem include proposals to regulate single-use plastics, including plastic grocery bags, and promote the recycling of plastic bottles. The existing city ordinance on the “sale, distribution and use of plastics” prohibits the use of several plastic products such as drinking cups, ice cream cups, condiment containers, stirrers, straws, egg containers or clamshells, balloon sticks, meal boxes, and cutlery, according to Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability .
IDID had expressed apprehension on the use of oxo-degradable plastic, claiming “it still poses threats to the environment.”
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