News Release: Volunteers to clean up Pangasinan waters BY: VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO DAGUPAN CITY, Sept 17 (PIA) – Volunteers will wade into the waters of Pangasinan and scour for garbage as their contribution to the International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) Day on September 21 with the theme ‘Turn the Tide on Trash.’ Leduina Co, provincial environment and natural resources officer, said the ICC Day is led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in consonance with Presidential Proclamation No.470 dated September 2003 to promote healthy and diverse ocean ecosystem and oppose practices that threaten ocean and human lives. “(We will have) a simultaneous clean-up along the shorelines of every coastal municipality and along the Lingayen Gulf in general,” Co told the Philippine Information Agency. Clean up will be conducted in the coastal barangays of Bonuan Gueset, Bonuan Binloc and Bonuan Boquig in Dagupan City, and in the towns of Binmaley, Lingayen and San Fabian. “The public support in this activity will assure preservation and protection of our marine resources,” Co said. In a report, the Washington-based Ocean Conservancy, said the volume of ocean trash collected by volunteers from the Philippines has gone up every year in the last three years. In 2010, more than 145,000 Filipino volunteers picked up 240,360 kilograms of trash. In 2011, 114,418 volunteers collected 485,091 kg, while in 2012, almost 144,000 people retrieved more than 1.3 million kg, the reports showed. Held every third Saturday of September, ICC Day was first celebrated in the United States in 1986. An active participant in the worldwide event since 1994, the Philippines has consistently ranked second, next only to the United States, in drawing the biggest number of volunteers. (MCA/VHS/PIA-1/Pangasinan) - See more at: news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=411410854340#sthash.qqbcujoP.dpuf
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:46:14 +0000
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