{"id":246218,"date":"2020-02-26T02:23:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T07:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=246218"},"modified":"2020-02-26T02:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T07:23:33","slug":"passage-of-bill-on-single-use-plastics-ban-pushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/26\/passage-of-bill-on-single-use-plastics-ban-pushed\/","title":{"rendered":"Passage of bill on single-use plastics ban pushed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abante made the call after the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC), an attached agency of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), issued a resolution banning the use of single-use plastics in all government offices. (Pexels Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 House Minority Leader Bienvenido Abante Jr. on Wednesday called for the immediate passage of a measure seeking to permanently prohibit the manufacture, importation, sale, and use of single-use plastic products in the country.<\/p>\n

Abante made the call after the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC), an attached agency of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), issued a resolution banning the use of single-use plastics in all government offices.<\/p>\n

DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu signed NSWMC Resolution No. 1363, Series of 2020, which bans the use \u201cunnecessary\u201d single-use plastic products particularly cups less than 0.2 millimeter in thickness, drinking straws, coffee stirrers, spoons, forks, knives,\u00a0\u201clabo<\/em>\u201d or thin and translucent plastic bags, and thin-filmed\u00a0sando<\/em>\u00a0bags lower than 15 microns.<\/p>\n

“This is a step in the right direction and, I believe, a signal to those of us in Congress to finally pass a law to prohibit the use of single-use plastics in our country,” Abante said in a press conference.<\/p>\n

He said House Bill No. 3773 would prohibit the “manufacture, importation, sale, and use of all single-use products” one year after the effectivity of the law.<\/p>\n

The measure defines single-use plastic as “disposable plastic products which are commonly used for packaging and include items to be used only once that are thrown away or recycled.”<\/p>\n

Examples of these products are grocery bags, food packaging containers and bags, water bottles, straws, stirrers, styrofoam, cups, sachets, and plastic cutlery.<\/p>\n

Abante said such a measure “is way overdue given the damage caused by single-use plastics to the environment and the amount of single-use plastic that we produce each year.”<\/p>\n

He said the Philippines produces 2.7 million metric tons of plastic each year and is estimated to have the 3rd highest rate of mismanaged plastic waste in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis can be attributed to the fact that ours is what is called a ‘sachet economy,’ meaning we buy many products in small quantities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

“As a result, data shows that we use more than 163 million plastic sachet packets daily, or around 60 billion sachets a year. Many of these used sachets find their way to our seas, as studies shockingly show that 80 percent of ocean plastics come from land-based sources\u2013\u2013not from fishing vessels or the fisheries sector,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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