{"id":27350,"date":"2018-03-29T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=27350"},"modified":"2022-04-27T00:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:20:55","slug":"baguio-city-to-be-plastic-free-starting-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/baguio-city-to-be-plastic-free-starting-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Baguio City to be ‘plastic-free’ starting May"},"content":{"rendered":"

The local government of Baguio City bans the usage of plastic bags in stores, groceries, and other retail establishments in hopes to\u00a0lessen waste production.<\/p>\n

\"\"Burnham Park in Baguio City<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The city council has formally implemented the Ordinance No. 35 series of 2017 or the \u201cPlastic and Styrofoam-Free Baguio Ordinance\u201d in which plastic bags polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene foam container or \u201cStyrofoam\u201d will not be allowed in the city anymore.<\/p>\n

Local residents and tourists are highly encouraged to use\u00a0eco-friendly bags or reusable bags to carry their items. Establishments which still use plastics are given a one year period to adjust and follow the ordinance. To create discipline, the first offense will be revocation of the store’s business permit.<\/p>\n

Also read: Baguio City from PH is one of the UNESCO Creative Cities<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Wright Park in Baguio City<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The penalties will be a Php 1,000-fine (for second offense), Php 3,000 fine and eight hours of community service (for the third offense) and lastly, a Php 5,000-fine and suspension of business permit for six months (fourth offense).<\/p>\n

Restaurants, supermarkets, and groceries, government schools and offices\u00a0will be the establishments covered for the implementation.<\/p>\n

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Sources:\u00a0www.news.abs-cbn<\/a>, www.sunstar.com.ph<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ordinance was supposed to be fully implemented by 2012 but was canceled during the 2013 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2580],"tags":[5719,5720],"class_list":["post-27350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news-source","tag-baguio-city","tag-plastic-free"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/03\/IMG_2019_2-e1522170906717.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64725,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27350\/revisions\/64725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}