The team head of the Bacolod City Legal Office Composite Enforcement team said yesterday that the city government is intensifying its Anti-Plastic Ordinance campaign by sending notices to the satellite and big markets throughout the city.

Cesar Beloria also said that the notice will include citation of the violation and the settling of the fine for those who violate the ordinance.

He said they have already checked all department stores, bazaars and suppliers in the city and found them following the provisions of the ordinance.

The CLO team discovered that the tenants in some commercial buildings were the problem and not the business establishments themselves. Most of the establishments have already issued memoranda regulating the use of plastics, Beloria said.

However, some establishment owners/operators pleaded with the CLO not to confiscate their plastic items and presented proof that they have delivered the non-biodegradable plastics to their suppliers for reprocessing that will be returned to them, Beloria added.

He said their next focus will be on the satellite markets in the barangays but due to the limited number of team members from the city government, the barangay officials will monitor their respective areas.

Beloria said that, so far, they already confiscated one sack of non-biodegradable plastics and we will recommend to the City Administrator's Office that it be used it as part of the city's project. It can be processed to make it biodegradable and donate it to the markets, especially to the vendor's association.

He said that they have found out some business establishments violating the anti-plastic ordinance by tampering the label of their plastic pouches as biodegradable.*Shiela May Gelera

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