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oStimulating demand for recycled products and promoting benefits ofpost–consumer recycled products – provides a larger market forrecycling businesses and encourages the growth of more eco–entrepreneurs, noting that in the Philippines, as in many othercountries, more than 90% of industry is small and medium in size. Thesuccess of the most recent eco–products fair held in Manila in early2009, with plans already afoot for another one in 2010, suggest thatthese, combined with green procurement programs, are effectivevehicles for generating interest and support for eco products, includingrecycled products. The government can further stimulate demand byenacting policy in favor of green public procurement. An example isthe Executive Order 301, issued by the Office of the President inMarch 2004, requiring all departments, bureaus, offices and agenciesof the executive branch to establish their Green Procurement Programs.Although implementation has been slow, one outcome of this is theinclusion of environmentally preferred criteria in the procurementguidelines of the Department of Budget and Manage68