A waste and pollution watchdog has appealed for public cooperation to lessen the environmental impact of the much-anticipated festive celebration of Christmas and New Year’s Day by reducing unnecessary wastes.
At an event on Wednesday at the San Pablo Apostol Parish in Tondo, Manila, the EcoWaste Coalition partnered with the Canossa -Tondo Children’s Foundation Inc. to promote practical, creative and eco-friendly ideas to prevent and reduce the massive holiday trash associated with the celebration of Christmas.
“The joyful remembrance of the Christmas story is an opportunity for Christian Filipinos to rediscover the virtue of simplicity as exemplified by the birth of Jesus in a manger,” said Jove Benosa, Zero Waste Campaigner of EcoWaste Coalition. The groups urged the public to cut down on crass consumerism and holitrash by making a shopping list to avoid impulse buying and overspending, bringing in their own “bayong” or reusable bags, while refusing plastic or paper bags, and go for eco-friendly products that are minimally packed, durable, and safe, and which can be repaired, reused, recycled or passed on to others.
As for Christmas gifts, the EcoWaste Coalition urged the public to choose gifts that come with little or no packaging at all and to give gifts that foster good health and ecological balance such as vegetable seeds, kitchen herbs, flower bulbs, tree saplings, organic personal care and cosmetic products, eco-alternatives to plastics, etc.
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