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#AyokoNgPlastik: WWF Philippines launches campaign vs. single-use plastic
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines has joined the call to end plastic pollution with its #AyokoNgPlastik movement.
Joined by its partners, WWF Philippines launched the campaign in Makati City on Tuesday, hoping to eventually do away with single-use plastics, which the Philippines produces in abundance.
WWF Philippines CEO and president Joel Palma said that the movement aims to spread information and engage all sectors in addressing the alarming amount of plastics that end up in the oceans.
“We are trying to as much as possible engage different sectors that should eventually do away with plastics,” he told GMA News Online.
“It starts with a single movement for everybody to follow,” he added.
Palma said that finding a solution to plastic pollution is an effort that requires everybody’s participation.
“The more people working on plastics the better, because I think the problem is so enormous that we have inform everyone, we have to everyone conscious that can reduce on things, which is very doable,” he said.
“We can do away with single-use plastics anyway. We didn’t have that 30, 40 years ago,” he added.
Among those that heeded the call was Ayala Malls, one of the biggest shopping mall developers in the country, which is in the process of setting up collection hubs for single-use plastics in their malls. Collected plastics will be turned into ecobricks.
Other official partners include National Geographic, HSBC, and several coffee shops and resorts.
These companies and institutions have pledged to reduce plastic waste by offering alternative options to plastic in their businesses.
The United Nations Environment Programme has found that the Philippines is one of five countries that produces half of the plastic waste in the oceans.
According to a 2015 study, the Philippines wastes a staggering 6,237,653 kg (6875.84 tons) of plastic per day, of which 81 percent is mismanaged. — BM, GMA News
