By Billy Begas
The House Committee on Ecology on Thursday approved a substitute bill that will regulate single-use plastic.
The still unnumbered substitute bill was crafted from 38 House bills and four House Resolutions.
It seeks to regulate the production, importation, sale, distribution, provision, use, recovery, collection, recycling, and disposal of single-use plastic products.
Negros Occidental Rep. Francisco Benitez, who headed the technical working group, said it has been a challenge to consolidate the measures.
“The bill was very difficult to craft because it is in a period of the pandemic, and we need to make sure that we balance the competing interests of single-use plastics regulation with the interest of the industry, workers of the plastic industry as well as the very needs of mother nature,” said Benitez.
The substitute measure proposes a transition period and tiers of single-use plastic products that would be regulated in varying degrees.
The measure also proposes to increase the producer’s responsibility to reduce and recover single-use plastic products in the market as well as to undertake environmental education to help moderate the consumer’s behavior in using plastics.
The revenue generated from fees and penalties between the National Solid Waste Management Council and the barangays to help provide the source of funds in enhancing material recovery on solid waste management programs.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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