People themselves must lead in drive on plastics

A big majority of Filipinos – seven out of 10 – are in favor of banning single-use plastics, according to a survey conducted recently by Social Weather Stations.

The survey showed that Filipinos have become very aware of a problem that threatens the whole world today. Scientists have long warned about the mountains of plastic wastes rising in the depths of the world’s oceans, a problem that could only worsen over the years because plastic is non-biodegradable. It can last 450 years or even longer.

The United Nations Environment Program has determined that at the present rate of plastics use and disposal, there will be about a billion tons of plastic wastes in landfills and in the world’s oceans by the year 2050. And the Philippines has been identified as one of the world’s worst plastic polluters, next to China and Indonesia.

In the Philippines, the plastics industry through the Philippine Plastics Industry Association has announced a program of voluntary reduction by its members. Many restaurants and hotels have taken to the use of carton boxes for take-out foods. Some local governments, like Quezon City, have taken it upon themselves to ban the use of single-use plastics. There are bills to regulate the indusry in both the House and the Senate.

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