Trees and greenery are rising from a patch of land that was once covered with trash in Barangay Payatas in Quezon City, thanks to an ongoing tree-planting project by the local government.

On the eve of the World Earth Day celebrations last Saturday, a group of employees from the Quezon City government, the Department of Interior and Local Government and the Manila Water Co. planted more than a hundred bignay trees in the notorious dumpsite.

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