Adopt zero-waste lifestyle — Legarda

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Loren Legarda has encouraged the public to start a zero-waste lifestyle, especially avoiding the use of plastics to welcome a new year.

Legarda said the shift to zero-waste lifestyle may not be easy, but with the start of 2019, people can definitely add this to their resolutions.

“Let us welcome the new year with a resolve to be better citizens of the Earth by adopting an eco-friendly, zero-waste lifestyle,” Legarda said. “A zero-waste lifestyle means using products that can be reused and promoting processes that avoid or eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste. It means creating little to no waste. It is veering away from the throwaway culture by reusing, reducing and recycling.”

Legarda believes that the implementation of the Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM) Law, which she authored, and the passing of her proposed Senate Bill 1948, or the Single-Use Plastics Regulation and Management Act of 2018, would ease the transition to a zero-waste lifestyle.

The ESWM Law implements a system of solid waste management that includes segregation of garbage at its source, segregated transportation, processing, treatment and proper disposal of solid waste.