The Plastic Problem in The Philippines We Need To Solve
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2021
- The Philippines contributes heavily to the pollution of global oceans. Is it really possible to #SachetAway for a better future? We definitely think so, but it’s on all of us to do our part.
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The Fat Kid Inside Studios
Erwan Heussaff - Founder
Kashka Gaddi - Content Producer
Eamonn Quizon - Cinematographer
Edel Cayetano - Story Producer
Julius Rivera - Videographer
Steven Sune - Editor
Lorraine Santos - Editor
Dana Blaze - Editor
Dustin Dagamac - Content Creator
Trist Bagano - Content Manager
Chester Velasco - Production Assistant
Sofia Paderes - Graphic Designer
Roanne Salvacion - Accountant
Christiana Manuel: Graphic Artist
Resource people:
Anna Oposa
David Albao
Prof. Tonette Tanchuling
Marian Ledesma
Atty. Grip Bueta
Special thanks to:
Miko Aliño of GAIA
Tiara Samson of BFFP
MakeSense volunteers for the social experiment:
Aura Payawan & Micha Reyes
Social Media:
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When our small business sold in bazaars, we started with paper bags (similar to what groceries provide) and got lots of complaints from maldita customers. Shifted to plastic bag and not a single complaint. Sad reality
Yes same reason why fruits are wrapped in plastic at the supermarket :(
There's shampoo bars and well moisturising soap bars now and even feminine wash bars. It just needs to be more accessible to the mass.
@@featrmedia Pls try to search about THE FLAP. 😢
Waste to energy technology that's the solution this must taxed to the private companies that uses plastics.
Sad reality :( However, I hope that you will still continue to do the right thing for our environment and still save an eco-friendly packaging / paper bags for those consumers that are willing and very cooperative to our campaign #notosingleuseplastic.
Please make more this kind of videos, featuring the environmental problems of the Philippines. There are zero to none of this kind of video in the country. It can educate a lot of people especially the Filipinos.
Yeah, we definitely think that we need to have more conversations about this topic.
I totally agree to this! This video was very insightful and helped widen my knowledge in plastic-use and reducing wastes. Thank you, Featr!
Yes I totally agreee
You mean the environmental problems of Manila
yes!!!
To think that once upon a time, the love song "Mutya ng Pasig" ("Pearl of the Pasig") was written about the same river. That Manila was once written about as a beautiful coastal city. That _Pandaka pygmaea,_ one of the smallest fish species in the world, were once so abundant we put it in our 10-centavo coins proudly, but we then filled in the rivers they were found in. This happened within a span of less than 100 years. Yet the NCR, much less the Philippines, still has no proper universal waste disposal system. Garbage cans are rare. There are no serious attempts at a national recycling program, other than superficial school projects. No legislation to reduce plastic usage in products. What legislation that exists aren't enforced. We don't even have proper parks in most cities. Our streets flood yearly with the sewers and drains blocked by garbage. And the slums grow each year, with the accompanying improperly-disposed garbage and sewage, because the government turn a blind eye to the housing problem. We failed, and yes I've lost hope in our government ever fixing it.
We literally vote for public officials who litter the streets with their campaign posters. It's laughable to think they would care about these issues.
📝 timestamps for school use
2:40 - amount of waste collected
3:35 - generally. communities in the ph are not equipped to deal with plastic waste
4:00 - where plastic waste goes
6:00 - systemic change
6:40 - sachet
13:00 - examples of lgus that have limited plastic use
16:40 - top recycling countries in the world
This topic is extremely important. Everyone should contribute to the preservation of the beauty of the Philippines. Power on FEATR.
I agree with you..
Kudos to FEATR for covering this! Please cover more topics like this.
Definitely in our plans 😊
Kudos to Featr for this video. Aside from single use plastic, we can also reduce usage of paper bags, plastic spoons and forks from restaurants. Whenever I buy things I hardly encounter the staff asking me where will they put the items that I bought (I guess except for the big stores) even if they can see me carrying a reusable bag. Our family orders food delivery from time to time. Most of the restaurants would send us plastic utensils even if we already said that we don't want plastic utensils.
This video is worth to be recognize by our LGU's specially lawmakers to take action because its getting serious and worse. Thank you Erwan and Team for this reminder.
Ha?
I'm happy this channel talked about this issue. We should get more contents like this.
I am a teacher in Taiwan and I was asked to give a presentation about the environmental situation in the Philippines. I must admit that what I learned from your video is so embarrassing to share, but it's the sad truth about our country. We are a major part of the world's plastic problem. Thanks for making this informative video. Please make more videos to help educate, and hopefully we can be part of the solution.
About time influencers like Erwann talk about this topic. Hope we can see more from other content creators
Way to go, Erwan & team! 👏👏👏 very informative. More of this kind of content pls. May the Filipino people be encouraged to take part in creation care.
KUDOS to this! Real content, with heart, educational, timely, always relevant. I hope other vloggers will do the challenge to raise better awareness and not just non sense challenges para lang may content sila. Let's all be a part of the solution. 🤘🏻
I'd be waiting for more videos about Environmental issues, Social problem, Agriculture, and Tourism; things that should be prioritize here in the Philippines. I definitely love this! #GogreenPH #Reduce #Refuse #Singleuseplastics
I really appreciate how Erwan uses his platform not just for entertainment, but also for tackling societal problems. This video is an eye-opener, now I'm aware that I'm part of the environmental problem, I do my best to become a part of the solution. I hope other influencers create this kind of content as well.
I watched the whole episode. Thank you for sharing to a bigger audience. Kudos to the team and Erwan!
From time to time we need this kind of content, educational and enlightening. Keep it up FEATR.
I think these is one of the few times I comment in what I read. These really makes me happy. Hope you can do more videos like these. Will be more conscious of consuming less plastic as my baby steps to help save the planet 😊
More of these! Hoping for a positive outcome!
Featr, Erwan,
You guys are the best!
Thank you for this video. ❤️🌏
Love this video! It’s very educational and takes into account the economic and cultural context we have in the Philippines. Great work, FEATR 👏🏻
It's great to know that some of our influencers choose to feature or make time to do a documentary video to educate us people and most especially to people who are now willing to shift in eco-living lifestyle and now ready to do small acts for the welfare of our environment.
Like you, I was so dismayed to learn that the Philippines has the dubious distinction of being the top plastic ocean polluting country in the world largely due to gross mismanagement of plastics disposal. Thanks so much for highlighting this urgent environmental problem. I am also heartened to see recent efforts to address the problem in the Pasig River and elsewhere on the islands, but there is still so much to be done. Great informative video!
So glad to see such a content in a food channel! Influencing UA-camrs need to use their platform for highlighting such issues which are the biggest threats to the planet right now!
Thanks Erwsn for taking time to address this issue.
Hoping that this will serve as "eye opener" a reminderv to everyone to feel responsible of their own plastic waste disposal.. Mahirap Gawin pero kayang gawin ( if there is will, there is a way.)
I accept the challenge to TRY to help solve this problem starting in our own household.
HOPE YOU TRY TOO.
Vox type explainer videos in the context of the Philippines is awesome. Insightful and very important.
Small changes of bad habits can also make a difference if applied at large scale.
I will never get the point of having soap or other household product being put in an additional plastic bag to keep it separated from food items when doing groceries. My wife told me it’s an old habit that makes feels the consumer well taken care of, as household items are not meant to be eaten, thus they should be kept away far from food… as if there wasn’t already enough plastic barriers between items…
Same craziness about fruits and vegetables being wrapped in plastics in grocery stores. Sure you get to see the price as everything is pre-weighed but come on, that’s another example of abusive plastic use, especially since fruits and vegetables are naturally wrapped in their skins that is pealed off anyway before consumption…
Individual change is not enough- There has to be a bigger change. In the grand scheme of things- if you’re a consumer using plastics is inevitable. One person is such a small part of the problem. We need to hold companies accountable.
I like this kind of topic regarding recycling and how to reduce waste. Thanks for sharing
This will be awareness for all of us. Your videos is a way to educate people. Keep it up.
One awesome channel that makes a differnce..
Entertainment, Lesson and advocacy
Awesome content - quite an eye opener! 👍🏽
Thanks for doing your part in making your viewers and subscribers more aware of this serious matter. Hope the top universities put their brain power together in developing strategies (short to long term) towards a circular economy and sustainable solutions for solid waste management. This should include strong policy proposals for the government to adopt.
Let’s not watch only , let’s get involved . Thank you for reminding us and making aware of the pasig river condition.
Great channel! Thanks for the video, very informative!
super well made video, from scripting to visuals to research love this!!
Great Video for awareness.!!!!
What a great topic to really talk about! Wala Usik is doing a great job!
Thank you for creating this. Hope everyone will open their minds and reduce individual carbon footprint. Sana mag karoon din ng zero waste grocery dito sa Pilipinas tulad nung sa L.A ata yun (search niyo po dito sa youtube "zero waste grocery" hehe) Sana maconsider ng mga tao as new normal tulad ng pag adopt natin sa pandemic. Sana ma consider ng mga may kaya magput up ng business ang ganito by introducing new way of living. Let people understand its importance by shifting their belief.
Woah this looked like a Vox production, it was amazing to watch! I'd also be interested in more features regarding the environment and its link to the food we eat. Cheers!
This video gives VOX vibes, and I'm so happy that it's an educational channel from the Philippines. Keep it up FEATR!
Yeah. We have to have that law that requires these companies to be responsible or possibly take part of proper waste management since they are also contributing to these economic problem. Been overthinking about our everyday waste lately. Thus is so timely for me.
I love this kind of topic, good choice.
I always admire Erwan for the context of his channel. It addresses a lot of the current issues that definitely needs highlighting. He doesn’t just do the videos for money but also for a cause. ❤️🥰#BethCleary
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Hopefully a lot of people will watch this. Great job @featr
thank you for this. please keep going!
Nice one team featr! especially to the one who did the motion graphics. World class👏🏼
This is very informative video, I do hope there is Tagalog version and can be use to local community.
I hope you make more contents like this. Nuclear energy, battery technologies, anything about discipline so that more people from our country will learn these things.
Plastics can be converted into diesel, or a base oil that can be used to make other plastics/chemicals. Pastics can also be converted into building materials.
Households can have a rubbish-bin dedicated for the collection of Plastics.
Such plastic recycling plants require a lot of energy. Maybe we can use co-generation; or in the furure, SMRs.
You'll have to educate the public regarding this terrible problem. Where possible, we have to replace Plastics with glass or paper.
Synthetic fibres are another problem. We may need to return to natural fibres like wool, cotton, linen.
Kudos, FEATR. Content beyond content!
I hope this is in tagalog for the general public to understand. Since this video aims to educate people environmental problems. Nevertheless, thank you for doing this. 🙏
I like the topic and the presentation 👍
love this content! I hope if not all most of filipinos can watch and realize problem such this.
We definitely hope that this message reaches a lot of people
Wow Erwan! your platform just got bigger. Waste management is everyone's responsibility.
Some of the ways I think we can help is by:
- Not opting for plastics in most food containers - restaurants/food kiosks should use durable wares for rewashing
- Using biodegradable containers (banana leaves/coconut leaves / repurposed paper etc) for take out packaging
- Giving rebates to consumers who could bring their own containers and for the return of the tumblers/containers they use in packaging.
This is a social problem and it takes a community effort to resolve this.
Do some more like this. Thanks
this is so informative. Thank you FEATR
Something substantial. Worth the time
If only there's a law requiring businesses/manufacturers to use minimum plastic packaging. Example when you open a bag of chips, it's 50% chips; 50% air.
This needs more views
Thank you Featre for this content. As citizen my part of solution. We cant help it we have single use plastic every purchase . I create a “ecobricks” 1-2 Liter bottle to put thin plastic, “cutted foil plastic compress to the bottle.
Woah I thought I was watching a Vox video. Nicely done video, Featr! Most importantly, this is a very informative and educational one too.
Everyone must see this.
I really love the content of this video. It's very informative and it makes me feel guilty at the same. I hope I can be part of the solution too.
this video is very informative!
Think it's important we don't forget just how little the developed world wants to help the developing world. The developed world sells their plastic to developing countries. It's not just about us as the litterers. There is also burden on the developed countries to reduce producing plastic waste as well. Paul Graham had a very disingenuous thread a couple months ago trying to blame only the developing world for plastic waste in the ocean. Still got receipts if anybody wants
I love this kind of topic.
Nice content. Very informative.
I l❤️ your topic 👏👏👏
With all the food deliveries during the quarantine one can imagine the increase in the procurement of single use packaging - including plastics - during the past 19 months or so.
thank you po. we will make a thesis about this
There is also "Walay Usik" store in kidapawan city owned by Gabriel Razo and a native trees advocate in our province. Me here in cebu city, garbage is also a big problem, people should also have discipline in disposing their garbage. Personally, wherever i go, i always bring with me ecobag, in case i have something in my mind to buy. Let us help each other even in our own little way to clean our home, our mother earth🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Featr! Dapat maraming makapanood nito. Sana may tagalog para mas maintindihan ng mga sa lower grades..
Thank you for this Featr!
Fines should be imposed....push on the government Contribution in imposing responsible waste management.....maybe incentives too to encourage participation... more also on info dissemination.
Agree on Governance...
I felt like the Jungle School Project by Pastor Jasper Iturriaga will be featured here sooooon! Contents like this pleaseeeee!
Thanks for this narrative about our plastic problem. My takeaway after watching this is don't make a "plastic" turn into a waste. It must be usable in multiple times until it incinerated chemically, yes until it became almost a biodegradable material. We must eradicate single-use plastic. I am not trying to be dogmatic here, saying don't use plastic at all. Dah! Even our appliances at home and daily essentials has elements of plastics on it. Others, like containers, boxes, and some tools are made of plastic. It's just we need to use it wisely without harming our environment. Both the local governments and the people must act as one to implement this ordinance and make it our way of life.
It saddens me seeing this valuable video with just few views. It's like me posting on social media, writing a letter to LGUs, asking help to barangay or community just being disregarded. I live in an island where landfills is limited or seems not sustainble so caring today will benefit us islander.
I hope that even the government focuses on solving tge poverty in the Philippines they will also strengthen the value of environment not only of creating laws, ordinances and rules but utilizing it as people benefits the real value.
This is a great video cause it showcases the issues that are true to how Filipinos actually view waste management and segregation as useless cause they don't know how the waste is actually processed afterwards. Because we often assume that they are mishandled and are often mixed together when thrown in the landfills anyway, which unfortunately in some cases may be true.
We need more of these videos to raise awareness. Perhaps next time a video showing alternatives (It may be challenging to do this without showing company/manufacturer names), so consumers know that they can still enjoy the functionality a plastic material comes but there are a few in the market which are in fact made with biodegradable materials. There’s cassava bags, coconut sponges, recycled papers… and there are recycling centers too where you can take your recyclables.
For women, sanitary pads is a number one pollutant. I read somewhere where it says 1 pad = 5 plastic bags. Other women need to know that there are alternative pads that decompose in 3 years compared to the common ones in the groceries which can take 50 or more years.
Sadly when I post something like this type if content in my FB, only about .2% of my friends list show interest 🤷🏻♀️😔
Great video!
as much as possible don't throw the garbage anywhere, when I have garbage in my hand I put it in my bag because I don't want to throw it on the road or anywhere else, throw it in the right trash can, I hope others will also appreciate what was given to us.
The topic we needed
One simple solution is educating people in every community like in JAPAN using zero waste life by recycling through scraps new and usable things
Hope they could really push for a law about this issue, and omg esp during campaign period yah like prohibiting candidates of using plastic tarps, poster, etc really an eyesore like we could go for ebillboards solar generated screens for advertisements or any marketing related etc2
This is nice! ❣️🌏🌿
This is my huge frustration. When I was living near the bukid I was saving a lot of plastic because the organics can be disposed directly to the soil and serves as fertilizer.
Go Dave and Yannnnnnn 💚
The philippines has the most beautiful places the world could have. However, humans tend to disregard this gem and don't give value to it. We can change by starting from ourselves. We still have the chance to live in a better, clean world. We just have to start doing something today.
We need more affordable zero waste shops here in the Philippines or in Manila 🌊🐢
Thank you
We need to hold companies accountable! They keep blaming it on the consumers!
Please include the faceshield since it's plastic made too and also additional waste for us especially we are prone to floods. Eto din kasi ung isa sa mga inaalala ko na isa din sa mga masasayang nanaman kung hindi na ipapagamit and napaka daming supplies niyan ano na lang gagawin after. Imbis na nakakatulong na sana ma lessen ung mga plastic kaso ung government din natin hindi nag iisip. 😔
yung mga companies kasi dapat ang maging environmental friendly sa mga packages nila. ang tao asahan mo magtatapon at magtatapon yan.. kesa plastic ang itapon ng mga consumers, dpat magbago na ng packaging yung mga companies para hindi na plastic ang itapon ng mga tao..
Love the edit style
Everything is recycled here in Switzerland, from PET to batteries, papers, green waste separated, no land refill at all, the rest will be incinerated. We should follow such waste management but it cost a lot. Incinerators are very expensive.
graphics looking real nice!
Starting from using less and lesser plastic and bringing tote bags in shopping and buying goods is already a big step!
#sachetaway .... damn u guys never miss
We cannot eliminate “single-use plastic” at a large scale bcoz almost all families here in the Philippines are dependent on “tingi-tingi” and we need also to consider that. And also the problem is that the need to solve the problem ay ipinapasa sa mga consumers, what about the producers?... To solve the problem, hindi ito kaya ng iilan lang, the government, private sector, and consumer need to act as one for us to make it. Kung hindi natin ito masosolusyonan, we can’t change the irreversible effects of irresponsibility.
We practice segregation ng basura ang problema pagdating ng pick up ng basura kase hindi rin organize ang pag pick up halos sama sama din lahat ng basura. Sana magkaroon din ng better approach ang local government sa pick up ng basura at kung anong puwede lang itapon. At sana yung facility din na pagdadalhan ng basura maayos hindi yung itatambak lang yung basura hangang maging bundok tas pag ulan aanurin at mapupunta rin sa bodies of water.
Maganda ang gantong usapan. Kudos to erwan at sa team niya .
I hope we find the right solution for this.