From tarps to riches: Campaign tarpaulins can easily be recycled in to beneficial items such as multi-purpose organizers, carry bags, shopping bags, purses, aprons, tool belts.
You understand it’s election time again as quickly as you see every single electric guide in your neighborhood covered in candidates’ campaign posters/tarpaulins vying for your vote. Well, we unanimously vote that these eyesores blighting our cityscape be removed. If we might repeat a popular campaign slogan as quickly as Cory Aquino ran for president: “Tama na, sobra na!” And if we might add, “Tanggalin na!”
Read this: Our collective cry has actually not been in vain. Due to the fact that Feb. 9, some eight tons of illegally placed election campaign tarpaulins have actually been removed by Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and donated to the EcoWaste Coalition for recycling. You heard that right — recycling!
“Those offered to the EcoWaste last Feb. 18 in a ceremonial turnover ceremony, presided by MMDA general manager Corazon Jimenez, were among those tarps taken down from bridges, cables, lamp posts and trees, which are outside the Comelec-permitted poster areas,” says our good friend Manny Calonzo.
Who’d believe that these tarps could be turned in to functional items (which we can easily probably discover much more use for compared to a great deal of these candidates)? Even single moms and dad Leticia Calusayan, That earns a living by making bags and doing strange jobs, didn’t believe she could make something beautiful from discarded tarps — such amazing, promising items from campaign tarpaulins that are full of empty promises! Lolit is now even busier working from her house at Barangay Krus in Ligas, Quezon City. In her skilled hands, these tarps have actually found brand-new life — and brand-new purpose — as fairly purses, mini carry bags, tote bags, multi-purpose organizers, aprons, tool belts, etc. If you hope to understand much more concerning Lolit’s designs, email her at leticiacalusayan@yahoo.com.
We asked Manny: Are these items for sale? Where and exactly how much?
He tells us, “It was not truly the intent of the EcoWaste Coalition to sell these repurposed tarpaulins. Just what it did was to create prototypes that would certainly demonstrate the lots of helpful uses of tarps.”
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He adds, “Hopefully, enterprising community women and youth would certainly be encouraged to make functional crafts from tarp components to steer clear of them from turning in to garbage. If sold, these strong products ought to sell from as reasonable as P50 to probably P200 or much more depending on the size and complexity of the design.”
“Along with an ounce of creativity, we can easily make a variety of helpful crafts from politicians’ tarpaulins, which we can easily discover every one of over the place as the campaign goes full blast,” notes Aileen Lucero, EcoWaste Coalition coordinator. “Repurposing the campaign tarps will certainly insight preserve these plastics from dumpsites that are bursting at the seams as the country’s garbage continues to swell.”
The message is loud and clear: “Tarps: Dump not, burn not.” As opposed to these tarps ending up in the landfills, EcoWaste unveiled an array of beautiful items: shopping bags in various sizes, petite carry bags, shoe bags, magazine organizers, receptacles for office and household recyclables such as paper, newspapers, glass and plastic bottles, aluminum and tin cans.
These tarps can easily additionally be used as sun and rain shields for pedicabs, tricycles and jeepneys, as well as improvised awnings for homes and shops.
Repurposing or recycling these campaign tarps for non-meals purposes, says EcoWaste, will certainly insight cut the volume, as well as the toxicity, of discards that are disposed of in dumpsites.
Lucero warns, “Dumping these tarps will certainly lead to their chemical ingredients leaching in to the soil, as well as to surface and ground waters. Burning these tarps, which are mostly earned of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic, will certainly make and discharge really toxic pollutants, namely dioxins and furans, that can easily contaminate the meals supply chain and harm human health.”
As these tarps contain undisclosed chemicals of concern, the public is cautioned not to use them in applications that might contaminate meals or expose young kids to these hazardous substances.
Is EcoWaste not thinking of selling these items to the politicians?
Manny rapidly replies, “It will certainly be wonderful if politicians could buy spine the recycled products as a token for the environmental service given by those That repurposed their tarps. However we Chance that well-meaning politicians will, initial of all, abide by the Reasonable Elections Act and desist from placing campaign components outside the authorized areas. We further Chance that they will certainly take the initiative of removing components that are illegally displayed and dismantling them after the campaign season is over.”
But of course, That doesn’t want “clean” — and honest — elections?
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