MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) recognizes recycling as one part of the solution in plastic wastes. However, the final solution is the eventual phaseout of the use of plastics in all our products and drastic reduction of its use today. This is why we are supporting all legislations and programs towards this phase out. As countries, including the big ones, such as China is abandoning recycling plastic wastes of other countries, we also do not want to become the recycling centers for managing the plastic waste of other countries. This dangling of the WB of what it call a "loss of $890 Million a year" on plastic recycling is hardly limited to plastics produce, used and discarded here inside the country but they are in fact talking by large by the global plastic waste market which we should oppose. Priority should remain reduction of use, then phase out of plastics. Plastic recycling must be an option opened to community enterprises or sustainable enterprise run by local government units in partnership with these community enterprises. But it must not become an impetus for an entire industry to flourish in the Philippines as we manage this waste. This will only create the necessary market condition to dump more plastics here from other countries. Read here the position of MAKAKALIKASAN on Ecological Economics that encompasses our position on plastic waste management: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/ecological-economics.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.zerowaste To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article THE PHILIPPINE economy is losing up to $890 million a year due to what is described as a “market failure” in plastic waste recycling efforts, a new World Bank Group (WB) country study showed. “Only 22% of the total material value of plastics ($246 million/year) is currently unlocked. This results in $790-890 million/year of potential material value that is lost to the Philippine economy,” the World Bank Group said in “Market Study for the Philippines: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers” released on Tuesday. The total material value which could be unlocked from plastics recycling amounted to $1.1 billion, assuming that four of the country’s key plastics resins had 100% collected-for-recycling (CFR) rates and were sold for maximum value in the market, the World Bank said. Read more
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MAKAKALIKASAN (Nature Party Philippines) recalls that extended producers responsibility (EPR) really means that until every branded pollution persist in nature, we should never stop making these producers fully accountable. We welcome this research and its implications. We will continue to support the lobby for a national law and local ordinances in all local government units in the Philippines to institutionalize EPR, starting with plastic pollution. To read more about the Green Economics Agenda of MAKAKALIKALIKASAN where this position is an integral part of, please read this: http://naturepartyph.weebly.com/ecological-economics.html
JOIN to ACT through our appropriate FB Action Group: www.facebook.com/groups/ph.zerowaste www.facebook.com/groups/ph.greengovernance To JOIN the MAKAKALIKASAN: www.naturepartyph.weebly.com/join.html To become a Founding Member, please JOIN our ASSEMBLIES: www.facebook.com/groups/makakalikasan.assembly Original article: Global movement #BreakFreeFromPlastic said fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies Universal Robina Corporation (URC), Nestle, and Colgate-Palmolive were the top 3 corporate plastic polluters in the Philippines in 2020, as shown in the Philippine version of the 2020 Brand Audit Report.The 3 corporations’ packaging waste accounts for 46% of the total of 38,580 plastic items collected. Of this, 6,350 plastic items from URC were collected, 6,168 from Nestle, and 5,580 from Colgate-Palmolive. The report also said 91% of the total collected plastics were non-recyclables, particularly sachets. “This figure proves that recent efforts by FMCGs to boost their so-called recycling efforts are completely useless in addressing plastic pollution in the Philippines,” the groups in the movement said in a statement on Saturday, March 20. Read more |
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