Biñan City

             The City of Biñan –houses one of the first schooling of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, and known for its native delicacies such as the famous rice cakes topped with cheese or butter,locally called and nationally acclaimed as “Puto Biñan”. Approved by the former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Biñan took off last February 6, 2009 to become a new component city of our country.

 At its very prompt state, the city has grown into an industrialized and well-developed community. It is comprised with two of the country’s largest industrial parks namely Laguna Technopark Inc. and Laguna International Industrial Park (LIIP) which covers local and foreign multinational companies that contributes to the economic growth of the city and to the country as well.

Together with my proponent Carl Matulac, we will focus about the plastic ban being brought up by our hometown to relieve problems such as flooding and waste management that is roughly to be resolved in time. Implemented by the City Mayor, Hon. Marlyn “Len” Alonte-Naguiat, Biñan City now has a Municipal Order No. -03 which showcases “Balik Basket, Balik Bayong Tayo” Ordinance that could probably halt the problem of my hometown which is actually inclined to flooding because of plastics which are usually disposed improperly wherein it could be recycled first in order to reuse it to prevent waste products. The ordinance implies that Biñanenses should be morally responsible enough in having a greener living through the use of organic products whenever they get to purchase goods from the market. Reusable bags such as totes, baskets, bayong orkatsa will do in roaming around the city while shopping especially in the public market. Oxo-biodegradable plastics are now specially produced to ease green purchasing in line with the ordinance. And in line with this, fast food chains, restaurants and shopping malls also gave their whole heart in helping in the achievement of the order through the alteration of the use of plastics to paper materials in their operations and also initialized the stoppage of the use of straw.

We came into thinking on finding ways on how we will study and finally encourage our community to cooperate with, by means of educating them on how plastics affects the environment and keeping them familiarize with the technicalities and the factors affecting the environment that they might not have been encountered yet.