Villar renews call for ban on single-use plastic
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Government agencies and local officials should work harder to ban single-use plastic, which is one of the main causes of the degradation of Manila Bay, Sen. Cynthia Villar said yesterday. Villar, chairperson of the Senate committee on environment and natural resources, pressed anew for the ban on single-use plastic in a gathering of the heads of agencies tasked to clean and rehabilitate Manila Bay. “Plastics is one of the worst cause of destruction and pollution of our environment, and death of our marine resources. We know because in our cleanups, almost all the garbage we collect are plastic wastes,” the senator said during the Second Principals’ Meeting and Conference of the Manila Bay Task Force held at the Diamond Hotel in Manila.
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Romero, P. (2020, January 25). Villar renews call for ban on single-use plastic. The Philippine Star, p. 3.
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