Eigasai and Zero Waste Month, 2023

Allow us to continue here with more information about the 2023 Japanese Film Festival that we wrote about last Thursday.

Also known as Eigasai, 10 Japanese films from various genres, drama (four), mystery/thriller (two) including anime (four), will be shown, from January 27 to 31 in Cinema 6 of SM Seaside City, with ?100 admission for each film.

For your information, these are the four films scheduled for showing per day, from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. starting January 27 to 31.

For January 27, Friday: 1 p.m. “Every Day a Good Day”, 4 p.m. “Intolerance”, 7 p.m. “Belle” and 9 p.m. “Blue”.

For January 28, Saturday: “Lesson in Murder”, “Every Day a Good Day”, “Anime Supremacy”, “Belle”.

For January 29, 2023 Sunday: “Blue Thermal”, “Belle”, “And So the Baton is Passed”, and “In the Wake”.

For January 30, Monday: “INU-OH”, “Intolerance”, “Belle”, “Blue”.

For January 31, Tuesday: “Lesson in Murder”, “Anime Supremacy”, “Every Day A Good Day”, and “Blue Thermal”.

The Consulate-General of Japan in Cebu has posted the details of all these 10 films to be shown for the Eigasai to guide you which movie to watch.

Please refer to:https://m.facebook.com/Consulate-General-of-Japan-in-Cebu-100373328916351/.

Do share/spread this information about this year’s Japanese Film Festival and enjoy watching these films with family, friends, co-workers, others!

Moving on, how many of you know that January is Zero Waste Month as mandated by Presidential Proclamation No. 760, dated May 5, 2014?

“Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use.

“Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them.

“Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that are a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health.”

This definition from Zero Waste International Alliance:

“Zero Waste refers to “the conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and with no discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health.”

All are reminded and enjoined to do their share to prevent, avoid, divert, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle all their various waste types away from burning or disposing, discharging these to dumpsites, landfills, incinerators, waste-to-energy facilities, or to land, water, air!

We hope Cebu’s LGU officials will remember to seriously implement Zero Waste every January, most especially during the Sinulog or Fiesta Señor.

Let us pray Cebu City waste-related offices and agencies do better than this year’s waste management, move towards Zero Waste and seriously campaign for waste segregation, prevention, diversion from dumpsites and landfills.

Recent reports noted that Cebu City’s Department of Public Services collected and disposed of 180 tons of unsegregated garbage during the 2023 Sinulog Festival, 30 tons more than the 131 tons collected in 2020!

If Mayor Mike is serious about creating a Singapore-like Cebu City, zero waste will have to be a key component he needs to implement soonest!

As part of this year’s Zero Waste celebrations, RCE-Cebu, together with BioNutrient Philanthropic Development Office and other partners, is happy to share that this morning, January 21, Sessions 3 and 4 focused on management of plastic wastes, will culminate their three-module free Online EcoSchool Training for Youths and Their Households in Various Ecosystems.

Through DEO (Daily Eco-Offering- daily waste segregation), AGAPE (A Garden Per Eco-System from composted kitchen/biowastes) and PREP (Paper/Plastic Recycling Presentations), the Online EcoSchool Training aims to help protect our people/planet through Zero Waste.

For those interested to know more details about this online activity, please contact [email protected] and [email protected].