Memorandum signed to ban plastics at BCC

The Bacolod City College Advocates for Kalikasan: Unifying, Restoring, Augmenting and Nurturing (BAKURAN) held a tree-planting event last month in observance of “Environment Month,” with seedlings planted at the Bacolod City College (BCC) campus in Barangay Sum-ag.
According to BAKURAN President Jabel  H. Dalumpines, who also serves as a “green educator” for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Region VI, the organization seeks to promote “an advocacy of giving importance to the preservation of a balance and healthful environment in harmony with nature.”
He explained, trees are vital to ecological stability.
“Though the activity was a simple planting of tree seedlings, it invokes long term values of appreciating ecological stability,” Dalumpines explained.
Meanwhile, a memorandum of agreement was signed pertaining to an initiative called “PLASTRICT-Plastic Free BCC,” which seeks to eventually eradicate the use of single-used plastics at BCC./WDJ