🔒 Closed Manila Bay's Mangroves Are Choking with Garbage

Just a week after You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., a grisly sight welcomes migratory birds to Manila Bay’s mangrove forest in the Tanza mudflats. Tangled in the roots of the mangroves are heaps of garbage, mostly single-use plastics.

Diuvs De Jesus, a marine scientist at Oceana, photographed the site on September 25. De Jesus studied B.S. Biology in U.P. Diliman and took up an M.S. degree in Marine Science major in Marine Biology at U.P. Marine Science Institute.

Photo by Diuvs De Jesus.
"Spending millions for the dolomite beach in the disguise of cleanup when other parts of Manila Bay's mangroves and mudflats are threatened by plastic pollution and reclamation? Development in exchange for destroying our ecosystems?" De Jesus said.

Cleaning the oceans is really about cleaning what's on land.​

In June, marine conservation group Oceana, along with citizens stakeholders moved to You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

The group took the first step as a prelude to legal action to press the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) and concerned government agencies to do their job and implement Republic Act 9003 to address the "ballooning problem of marine plastic pollution, specifically single-use plastic."

Single-day coastal cleanups are good, but not sustainable and do not truly solve the problem of pollution. Cleaning up the oceans is more about cleaning up what’s on land, and the Philippines is nowhere near achieving competent and serious solid waste management.

Anna Varona, CEO and founder of Clean Our Oceans Project, tells Esquire Philippines, "International Coastal Cleanup serves as a testament to how much damage humans can do to the planet with their consumer behavior.

"If we want to stop pollution, we need to nip it in the bud. We start from our homes and workplaces. We start with ourselves. We have to take a good hard look at our lifestyle, what do we buy, do we really need it, can we choose in favor of the environment? When we do that and recycle, we will not need to throw anything as waste. We will stop killing the ecosystems that keep us and the future alive."

 

[LonelyGuy]

dapat un plastic tunawin na lang at gawin mga plant pots or chairs.

 

[dengkoy]

 

[norepinephrine]

As long as LGU's within NCR & Populated Provinces (Cavite/Laguna/Rizal) is not strict in Waste/Garbage Management and Discipline within citizens, privates sector company. As long as theres Flood :/ It won't be solved.