CABANATUAN CITY – “The use of these styro is already prohibited.”
Thus Msgr. Elmer Mangalinao, parish priest of St. Nicholas of Tolentine here, gently told a group of men who brought with them foods packed in polysterene foam for breakfast Sunday morning.
Sharing breakfast with officers of the Knights of Columbus Padre Crisostomo Council 6000 who paid him a courtesy call, Mangalinao also shared observation that the city public market is visibly clean during midnights but become full of garbage before dawn breaks.
“The people really play a big role here,” he said, prompting the men to join a stepped-up drive to keep a healthy environment.
Tending a bakery along the busy street of Burgos, also of this city, Liza would ask patrons if they have with them bags or baskets to carry the bread they bought.
If none, she would still provide plastic bags anyway. She would then advise them to use recyclable containers nest time.
“We are told to minimize giving away plastic to customers,” she said.
This developed as the city government of Cabanatuan vowed to strictly implement in the latter part of the year the ban on non-biodegradable plastic bags, pursuant to Ordinance no. 015-2012 which provides, among others, that people shall have to use eco-bags or baskets.
The measure also prohibits selling, giving and offering plastics in establishments like grocery stores, supermarkets, department stores, malls, food chains, restaurants, canteens, pharmacies, market vendors, auto part shops, and the likes.
Plastic bags maybe used for wet products but only on limited volume.
