MANILA, Philippines — Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has emphasized a “compelling need” to introduce direct and concrete actions to curb plastic pollution in the country, including imposing a ban on harmful and unnecessary single-use plastic products.
According to the House top leader, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made the problem with plastic pollution worse with the production and importation — in large quantities — of personal protective equipment (PPE) that are being used across the world in the fight against the new coronavirus.
Some of these PPEs, he noted, “end up in open landfills and the ocean, adding to the already worsening problem of pollution.”
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