Two years after its passage, the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the ordinance regulating the sale, distribution, and use of single-use plastics in Davao City, is yet to be signed by the city mayor, an executive of the environmental group Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustain
The Sangguniang Panlungsod enacted the measure on March 2, 2021 during the time of then Mayor Sara Duterte, who is now Vice President and Education secretary.
The ordinance prohibits the use of several plastic products such as drinking cups, ice cream cups, condiment containers, stirrers, straws, egg containers or clamshells, balloon sticks, meal boxes, and cutlery, according to IDIS. Section 7 provides that permits to distribute and/or use will be issued only upon showing of necessity “for lack of commercially available alternatives and only upon payment of single-use plastic regulation fee of P5 per item.”
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