SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan, Philippines – Goodbye plastic “sando” bags, hello “bayong” here in 2011.
This, as the municipal council passed an ordinance authored by Councilor Andres Justino Abalos regulating the use and sale of plastic bags in the public market and other commercial establishments and promoting instead in their place the “bayong” and other bags made of indigenous materials.
“The unrelenting use and indiscriminate littering of these plastic bags will pose unimaginable problems leading to health risks, environmental degradation and destruction of flora and fauna,” Abalos said.