Candidates urged to be environment friendly

THE Davao City-based environmental group Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS) has urged all candidates in the May elections to be responsible for their waste and to spare the trees as posts for their campaign materials.

"With the ongoing national campaign, election materials are visible everywhere. There are already numerous tarpaulins and advertisement banners — not to mention the balloons and confetti at every political rally. More of these types of wastes will be added to our current waste issues at the start of the local campaign on March 25," IDIS said in a statement Friday.