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BAGUIO CITY: The city council urged the City Environment and Parks
Management Office (Cepmo) to intensify its information-education
campaign (IEC) regarding the city’s policy on the disposal of
waste.
This, as city officials noted garbage piling up
along city streets in the central business district and major
thoroughfares in the city.
The officials said that uncollected garbage
along Marcos Highway and Quirino (former Naguilan) Road is for sure
a source of embarrassment considering how the city claims a place in
the “Hall of Fame” of cleanest and greenest highly urbanized
cities nationwide.
The resolution co-authored by majority of the
councilors said that with an effective information-education
campaign, especially with the implementation of a “no segregation,
no collection” policy, the collection of garbage will no longer be
a problem if all recyclable and reusable waste will be left at the
source.
“Education on proper segregation at home
should be intensified because if more composting machines at the
Irisan dumpsite will be installed, segregated biodegradable waste
can easily be treated by the composting machines,” reads the
resolution.
Cepmo was then targeting that there will be
100-percent compliance rate on the part of city households on the
city waste policy.
The daily average volume of wastes being
generated from the 129 city barangays, including business
establishments within the central business district, is 288 tons and
the average volume being disposed to the dumpsite before October 1
was 92 tons.
-- Harley F. Palangchao
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