{"id":238976,"date":"2019-12-02T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=238976"},"modified":"2019-12-04T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T01:12:01","slug":"lgus-expected-to-emulate-qc-ban-of-single-use-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/12\/02\/lgus-expected-to-emulate-qc-ban-of-single-use-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"LGUs expected to emulate QC ban of single-use plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Asked if the President planned to certify bills on the ban of single-use plastics in the country as urgent, Panelo said he would leave it to the discretion of the Congress. (Pexels Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang expects all local government to emulate Quezon City after it banned the distribution and utilization of single-use plastics in the city starting February 2020.<\/p>\n

Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Oct. 15 signed Ordinance SP-2876 which prohibits the distribution and utilization of single-use plastics in hotels, restaurants, and other similar establishments.<\/p>\n

President Rodrigo Duterte earlier raised the idea of prohibiting the use of single-use plastics in the country during a Cabinet meeting early this month.<\/p>\n

While Duterte has yet to comment on Quezon City\u2019s move, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said he expects all local governments to follow Quezon City’s example.<\/p>\n

\u201cWala pang sinasabi si Presidente<\/em>\u00a0(The President has not said anything yet). But I suppose all local governments would follow suit, since the President has already made a stand on that,\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing on Monday.<\/p>\n

Asked if the President planned to certify bills on the ban of single-use plastics in the country as urgent, Panelo said he would leave it to the discretion of the Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, that depends on the members of Congress. The President has already made a stand, definitive stand on that; all they have to do is to pursue that line,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

During the 35th Association of Southeast Asian Nations plenary summit in Thailand, the President issued the call to the developed countries to be \u201cmore circumspect\u201d with their trash disposal.<\/p>\n

He lamented that the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia have turned into \u201camong those who become dumping grounds for hazardous shipments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are talking about improving the ecology of the place, the environment, then we must take into account what we dump,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is as good as any other time and any place to tell the other countries, the Western countries, to be more circumspect,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In May, Duterte ordered a total ban of waste materials from any foreign countries after a waste dispute with Canada.<\/p>\n

The President threatened to dump tons of garbage back to Canada if it was not claimed back.<\/p>\n

A report from non-government organization Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives showed that the Philippines uses a \u201cshocking\u201d amount of single-use plastic, including nearly 60 billion sachets a year.<\/p>\n

The report found that almost 48 million shopping bags are used throughout the Philippines daily, adding up to more than 17 billion a year.<\/p>\n

It noted that the figure excludes around 16.5 billion smaller, thinner, and transparent plastic bags used every year across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang expects all local government to emulate Quezon City after it banned the distribution and utilization of single-use plastics …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":238977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238978,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238976\/revisions\/238978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}