Several environmental groups have sent a letter appealing to the Chairman Sheriff Abas of the Comelec to initiate pro-environment measures ahead of the 2022 elections. | JiggerJerusalem
These violations include the unrestrained plastering of campaign posters outside Comelec-designated areas, most notoriously on trees, electric posts and walls.
“We have also observed the rampant use of campaign materials that are hardly reused or recycled, particularly plastic tarpaulins, posters and buntings, as well as the confetti thrown in ‘miting de avance,’” the groups noted. The lack of an ecological system for managing discards such as food leftovers and their single-use containers will be an environmental nightmare, the groups said.
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