Seven presidential bets are supporting the campaign to ban plastic bags in the Philippines, an environmentalist group said Saturday. The EcoWaste Coalition said the presidential candidates have joined its clamor to ban plastic bags and other plastic disposable containers. They are senators Noynoy Aquino, Richard Gordon, Jamby Madrigal and Manny Villar, city councilor JC de los Reyes, environmentalist Nicanor Perlas and television evangelist Eddie Villanueva.Former President Joseph Estrada and Arroyo administration standard bearer Gilberto Teodoro Jr. did not join the 2010 Green Electoral Initiative (GEI) survey, which focuses on the presidential bets' environmental platforms. “Seven of the nine presidential bets who responded to the survey favor an outright or eventual ban on single-use plastic bags and other plastic-based disposable containers, which have been largely blamed for clogging waterways that caused floods and ocean pollution,” the EcoWaste Coalition said in its blog site. Among the presidential bets, Perlas is known as an advocate of a campaign to achieve zero waste. SG __
