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Awareness Of Malaybalay City on Ordinance No. 962 On Plastic and Polystyrene: Basis for Intervention
Corresponding Author(s) : Queences Kaye P Aliganga
Proceedings Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Undergraduate Conference,
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023): Crafting Innovation for Global Benefit
Abstract
Plastic pollution has become one of the world’s most critical environmental issues that people are facing today. In Malaybalay City, Article 7 Ordinance 962, known as Plastic and Polystyrene Regulation, was enacted to address the problem of banning single-use plastic. This study will assess the level of awareness of market vendors, other establishments vendors, and customers on Plastic and Polystyrene Regulation Article 7 Ordinance 962 in Malaybalay City. This research assessed the plastic and polystyrene regulation practices that are applied the most, and then the study formulated ordinance intervention for Malaybalay City. This study used a descriptive quantitative research design in data gathering. The instrument that used in gathering data for this study is a researcher-made questionnaire that utilizes a Likert scale and an open-ended questionnaire. Findings disclosed that the market vendors, other establishments vendors, and customers in Malaybalay City encounter problems in the awareness of plastic and polystyrene. The results overall mean was high awareness. The recommendation included bringing your bags and following the regulations, ordinances, and platforms such as signage and internet information to spread properly the said awareness of regulation. Based on the data gathered, mostly prefer a necessary resources and guidelines, continuous monitoring and evaluation that enables the market vendors, establishments vendors, and customers adopt and apply the regulation in the use of plastic bags, regulation in the use of polystyrene. Article 7 of ordinance No. 962, and adaptation of the residents on the mandate on “bring your own bag” program that must encourage individuals to strengthen the enforcement of regulation or law.
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Adviento, A. D. (2014). Evaluating the effects of the implementation of Plastic Bag Reduction Ordinance.
Ahmed, S.U., & Gotoh, K. (2019). Impact of Banning Polythene Bags on Floods of Dhaka City by Applying CVM and Remote Sensing. International Journal on Waste Management. Vol 1(2), 1471-1474
American Society for Testing and Materials— ASTMD6117— (2018). Methods for Mechanical Fasteners in Plastic Lumber and Shapes Awareness of Young Students: A Case from Turkey. Odgojne Znanosti, 11, 73-85
Boztepe, A. (2012), 'Green Marketing and Its Impact on Consumer Buying Behavior’, European Journal of Economics and Political Studies, 5(1), 5–21. Fuiyeng Braganza, P.A.T. (2017). “Assessment of the Implementation of the Plastic Bag Reduction Ordinance in Quezon City (2012–2016).” Philippine Journal of Public Administration.
Conservation and Sustainable Development: A case study of Shivaji University, Maharashtra, India. Journal of Environment and Earth Science, 4, 30-34.
Department of environment and natural resources DENR (2001) Ellen, M. (2019, March 13). Foundation: New plastics economy global commitment report. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/2T7QZ7w
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA 2012) Bette Hileman EPA REASSESSES DIOXINS September 1994Chemical & Engineering News.
Geyer, R. (2019). Production, use, and fate of synthetic polymers. In: Letcher, T.M. (ed.): Plastic waste and recycling, Academic Press, Cambridge, MA, 2019 (in press, Oct 2019).
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA).
Retrieved from www.no-burn.orghttps://www.no-burn.org/waba2019 Lebreton et.al., (2014) Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans: more than 5 trillion plastic pieces weighing over 250,000 tons afloat at sea.
Jadhav A. S., Jadhav V.V. and Raut P.D. (2014). Role of Higher Education Institutions in Environmental.
Knoblauch, J. (2009). The Environmental Toll of Plastic.www.environmentalhealthnews.org
Kumar, B. (2012) 'A Theory of Planned Behaviour Approach to Understand the Purchasing Behaviour for Environmentally Sustainable Products.
Laura, P. (2018). That is the equivalent to five grocery bags of plastic trash for every foot of coastline around the globe.
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-ocean-debris-plastic-garbage-patches-science/]
Lynwood et al., (2018). Polystyrene: Synthesis, characteristics and applications Gaseous and CondensedPhase Activities of Some Reactive P and N Containing Fire Retardants in Polystyrenes.
Mehmet E. & Muhammet U. (2009). Curricular and ExtraCurricular Activities to Develop the Environmental.
Pancuran, S. (2003). The Environment and Its Sustainability. Bandung: Alumni. Priscilla (2012).
Polymers (2021).
Pongrácz, E., Phillips, P.S. and Keiski, R.L. (2004) Evolving the Theory of Waste Management: Defining key Concepts. Progress in Industrial Ecology—An
International Journal, 3, 59-74. RA (9003). Popularly known as the “ecological solid waste management act of 2000”.
Siahaan, N. (2007). Forests, Environment and Development Paradigms
Stewart, J. H. (2001). Challenges for Environmental Education: Issues and Ideas for the 21st Century. BioScience, 51, 283-288.
Sukhwinder, K. (2013). Role of Teachers in Imparting Environmental Education for Sustainable Development. International Educational E-Journal, 2, 10-16.
Wehner (2019).
World health organization WOI (2019). Sunlight Converts Polystyrene to Carbon Dioxide and Dissolved Organic Carbon.