In poor Leyte town, plastic buys licenses

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines

Rustico Balderian, mayor of the fifth class municipality about 30 km south of here, said the town government started accepting clean plastic materials in March 2009 as payment for services from the municipal government.

Plastics such as bottles, sachets, broken parts of chairs and others are accepted as payment by the town.

If a resident has a kilogram of clean plastic materials, he could exchange this with medicines or a kilogram of rice.

Inquirer