Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today filed House Bill 2676 mandating that educational institutions are prohibited to use Styrofoam food service containers and other synthetic products harmful to the health and environment.
Palatino said, “Styrofoam is non-biodegradable and resists compacting, thereby taking up extra landfill space for long periods of time. The damage exacted by the continued use of Styrofoam is manifest in the perennial problem of waste management in the Philippines.”
Apart from the problem in waste management, the young lawmaker also cited the chemical hazards that Styrofoam or polystryrene …

In line with the consecutive cases of oil spills, Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today filed House Resolution No. 136 in the 15th Congress to conduct an investigation on all the petroleum service contracts and pipelines franchises granted by the national government to private oil companies.
“Recent reports of oils spills are most alarming given the impact of the British Petroleum oil spill in the United States and the China National Petroleum Corporation in China. The country has already witnessed and realized the grim effect of income-driven projects such as oil …