Next year, we should already be eating our Jollibee chicken joy not in the usual Styrofoam pack but in a cardboard box. And all our “take out” or “to go” orders will just have to be packed in a paper bag and not in plastic bags that are being used now.

This is because by then, all business establishments in the city shall have already shifted to biodegradable food packaging materials and eating utensils from the non-biodegradable Styrofoam and plastics that are in use now as mandated by City Ordinance No. 1858-2006.

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