TACLOBAN CITY – As an offset to the province-wide implementation of an anti-plastic ordinance in Leyte, the provincial board of this province through a resolution authored by first district Board Member Roque Tiu unanimously passed a resolution prohibiting entry of plastic and stryropor receptacles used as food containers in the offices and buildings of the provincial government and declaring them as plastic and styropor-free zone.
The resolution was approved during their regular session last Tuesday.
Tiu is the chairman of the committee on environment and the principal author of the anti-plastic ordinance of 2011 of the province.
“This resolution was passed after we had a consultation with the officers of the Provincial Association of Government Employees that gets a favorable acceptance,” Tiu said.
Tiu added that prior to the consultation with the PAGE officials, he consulted Leyte Governor Jericho Petilla regarding the passage of the resolution which the governor had told him to consult first the association of provincial employees.
“We hope that by this resolution we can help in reducing the use of plastic and styropor as non-biodegradable materials,” Tiu explained.
He added that it is also in relation to the memorandum circular issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources banning the usage and bringing of any food that uses plastic bags and styropor as their food container.
“We are hoping that other offices will also follow even if they are from the city of Tacloban that is politically separated now from the province of Leyte, because this will also be beneficial to the city as it will lessen the usage of non-biodegradable materials that causes floods when it clog the waterways,” Tiu added.
Tiu added that the resolution will be implemented immediately after it is done and forwarded to all offices and departments in the provincial government of Leyte.
“This is set to be implemented on March 1, which is less than a month from now,” Tiu added.
In the implementation of the resolution, Tiu said that officers of PAGE are the one who will inform their fellow employees regarding the resolution and even security personnel are also given the task to inform fastfood chain personnel who will enter the vicinity of the provincial government that plastic and styropor containers are already prohibited in the vicinity.
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