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VOL.13 ISSUE 252 • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2021
On the decline of Covid-19 cases in Davao City: Pababa ang atoang cases. But of course sa nakita nato sa experience nato last year during the height sa atoang MGCQ didto pud nagtaas ang atoang cases and ang pinaka daghan nato that time was 2,500 active cases a day. Napa-baba nato na to 1,300 approximately active cases today.”
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio
EDITORIAL Protecting ourselves Environment-conscious Dabawenyos who are known to be among the most militant in this part of the country have found a strong ally in Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio in their advocacy against single-use plastics. The lady mayor declared last week that the passage of the proposed ordinance is urgent. She requested the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) under the leadership of Vice Mayor Sebastian Z. Duterte to give its nod to the measure ASAP (as soon as possible). Councilor Diosdado R. Mahipus Jr. authored the ordinance designed to reduce, if not totally stop single-use plastics (SUPs). As the name suggests, SUPs are plastic products which are disposable, conceived, designed and placed in the market to be used only once. Councilor Mahipus is proposing 10 plastic products to be banned in the city – plastic drinking cups (recyclable or non- recyclable), plastic cup lids or covers, plastic stirrers (usually used to stir coffee and other drinks), plas-
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tic straw, plastic cutleries (spoon, fork and knife), plastic meal packaging, plastic hand gloves, plastic materials used as buntings and plastic materials used as balloon stick (recyclable and non-recyclable). Environment advocates among civil society organizations spearheaded by Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS) and the Sustainable Davao Movement have been advocating for this legislative action for years. These groups have argued that plastic pollution is a very serious problem that affects all communities on dryland as well as waterways. It is a kind of pollution that causes street floods, destruction of the all-important coral reefs, poisoning of our rivers and seas and the killing of fishes and other ocean creatures. Truth to tell, plastic pollution threatens our human existence. In other words, banning plastics is an act of protecting ourselves.
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