by Lovely A. Carillo
Clogged drainage systems, mounting un-segregated garbage and poor implementation of Republic Act 9003 — among the many causes of recent killer floods in Metro Manila and elsewhere — will, hopefully, not be the case in Davao City very soon.
The city has started implementing RA 9003 which mandates garbage recycling, garbage segregation and composting, as well as the ban on open dumpsites, according to city officials Edge Davao interviewed this week.
While the severe widespread flooding has spawned a blaming game between Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Lito Atienza and the Metro Manila mayors, “we do not have any problem with that since Davao City is compliant with RA 9003,” said City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) officer-in-charge Marivic Reyes, who added that the city has embarked on developing an estimated P268-million sanitary landfill project in barangay Carmen in Tugbok district.
Cenro operations division chief Engineer Redgie Aque said that while waiting for the turnover of the sanitary landfill, the city is temporarily using the open dumpsite in barangay Lacson in Calinan district.
Once the project has been turned over to the city government, he said, all the city’s garbage will go directly to the landfill.
Aque said the landfill will feature a more controlled and diagnostic method of disposing garbage by making use of a liner and an impounding pound to keep the area safe.
Reyes said the city has embarked on a 10-year solid waste management plan following the provisions of RA 9003.
A proposed ordinance on the matter by Councilor Leonardo Avila III is on its sixth draft and still being improved upon to provide solid waste management guidance to Dabawenyos.
Solid waste management
Avila said the proposed ordinance provides that the city government should ensure the efficient management of solid waste generated in its jurisdiction through the re-use, recycling and composting of the generated waste. This is stipulated in RA 9003.
The measure, called Davao City Ecological Solid Waste Management Ordinance of 2009, promotes public health and a healthy environment by ensuring the “proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid waste among others.”
“Wala man mi naghunong sa pag implement sa garbage segregation; kanang ginaingon nila na gina mix lang sa mga basurero ang garbage gina-presume man gud namo na nakasegregate na sya pagbutang sa garbage bin ug mga residual waste na lang ang naa sa bins (we have never stopped implementing garbage segregation and we presume that only residual wastes are being placed inside the garbage bins),” Reyes said.
She added that there are barangays that are already implementing the policy on waste segregation. Among them are barangays Hizon in Pampanga and Catalunan Grande. In the meantime, she added, Cenro is continuing its information and education campaign in the barangays.
Reyes admitted that there is still a great need for education and information dissemination to be done to make Dabawenyos comply with the waste segregation law. She said the sanitary landfill, which is being scheduled for turnover very soon, is expected to improve the waste disposal system in the city.
While she admitted that garbage can result in clogged drainage and flooded streets, it is not the one and only cause of flooding. Other factors to consider, she said, include the quality of the drainage system, lack of tree cover in the mountains and heavy rainfall.
Reyes said Cenro is able to collect between 900 to a thousand cubic meters of garbage per day or the equivalent to 300 to 350 tons daily. She said that while the city’s amount of garbage being collected each day is slightly on the rise, this is not constant and can increase or decrease, depending on a lot of factors. including population increase.
Plastic bags and polystyrene foam
Avila said the ordinance seeks to reduce the use of plastic bags and bans the use of polystyrene foam and plastic bags as food containers. Once implemented, the law requires all stores in the city to use only recycled and recyclable paper bags, biodegradable plastics bags, including native and cloth bags and used corrugated boxes or cartons for their customers’ use.
The ordinance further bans, within three years from its approval, the use of plastic bags as well as polystyrene foam as food containers. In lieu of these, the ordinance requires the use of only recyclable, biodegradable and reusable containers.
In consonance with RA 9003, the ordinance mandates waste segregation into biodegradable, recyclable, residual and special waste. And as part of the implementation of the plan, households will be encouraged to undertake backyard composting while establishments, like schools, malls, hotels and resorts and food establishments, will be required to undertake composting of waste generated at source.
With Davao City’s solid waste management plan, the city will not only be well on its way to preventing the sort of floods that recently devastated many parts of Metro Manila, but prepare Dabawenyos to become better citizens imbued with greater concern for the environment. Davao City prepares
against future floods
Clogged drainage systems, mounting un-segregated garbage and poor implementation of Republic Act 9003 — among the many causes of recent killer floods in Metro Manila and elsewhere — will, hopefully, not be the case in Davao City very soon.
The city has started implementing RA 9003 which mandates garbage recycling, garbage segregation and composting, as well as the ban on open dumpsites, according to city officials Edge Davao interviewed this week.
While the severe widespread flooding has spawned a blaming game between Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Lito Atienza and the Metro Manila mayors, “we do not have any problem with that since Davao City is compliant with RA 9003,” said City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) officer-in-charge Marivic Reyes, who added that the city has embarked on developing an estimated P268-million sanitary landfill project in barangay Carmen in Tugbok district.
Cenro operations division chief Engineer Redgie Aque said that while waiting for the turnover of the sanitary landfill, the city is temporarily using the open dumpsite in barangay Lacson in Calinan district.
Once the project has been turned over to the city government, he said, all the city’s garbage will go directly to the landfill.
Aque said the landfill will feature a more controlled and diagnostic method of disposing garbage by making use of a liner and an impounding pound to keep the area safe.
Reyes said the city has embarked on a 10-year solid waste management plan following the provisions of RA 9003.
A proposed ordinance on the matter by Councilor Leonardo Avila III is on its sixth draft and still being improved upon to provide solid waste management guidance to Dabawenyos.
Solid waste management
Avila said the proposed ordinance provides that the city government should ensure the efficient management of solid waste generated in its jurisdiction through the re-use, recycling and composting of the generated waste. This is stipulated in RA 9003.
The measure, called Davao City Ecological Solid Waste Management Ordinance of 2009, promotes public health and a healthy environment by ensuring the “proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid waste among others.”
“Wala man mi naghunong sa pag implement sa garbage segregation; kanang ginaingon nila na gina mix lang sa mga basurero ang garbage gina-presume man gud namo na nakasegregate na sya pagbutang sa garbage bin ug mga residual waste na lang ang naa sa bins (we have never stopped implementing garbage segregation and we presume that only residual wastes are being placed inside the garbage bins),” Reyes said.
She added that there are barangays that are already implementing the policy on waste segregation. Among them are barangays Hizon in Pampanga and Catalunan Grande. In the meantime, she added, Cenro is continuing its information and education campaign in the barangays.
Reyes admitted that there is still a great need for education and information dissemination to be done to make Dabawenyos comply with the waste segregation law. She said the sanitary landfill, which is being scheduled for turnover very soon, is expected to improve the waste disposal system in the city.
While she admitted that garbage can result in clogged drainage and flooded streets, it is not the one and only cause of flooding. Other factors to consider, she said, include the quality of the drainage system, lack of tree cover in the mountains and heavy rainfall.
Reyes said Cenro is able to collect between 900 to a thousand cubic meters of garbage per day or the equivalent to 300 to 350 tons daily. She said that while the city’s amount of garbage being collected each day is slightly on the rise, this is not constant and can increase or decrease, depending on a lot of factors. including population increase.
Plastic bags and polystyrene foam
Avila said the ordinance seeks to reduce the use of plastic bags and bans the use of polystyrene foam and plastic bags as food containers. Once implemented, the law requires all stores in the city to use only recycled and recyclable paper bags, biodegradable plastics bags, including native and cloth bags and used corrugated boxes or cartons for their customers’ use.
The ordinance further bans, within three years from its approval, the use of plastic bags as well as polystyrene foam as food containers. In lieu of these, the ordinance requires the use of only recyclable, biodegradable and reusable containers.
In consonance with RA 9003, the ordinance mandates waste segregation into biodegradable, recyclable, residual and special waste. And as part of the implementation of the plan, households will be encouraged to undertake backyard composting while establishments, like schools, malls, hotels and resorts and food establishments, will be required to undertake composting of waste generated at source.
With Davao City’s solid waste management plan, the city will not only be well on its way to preventing the sort of floods that recently devastated many parts of Metro Manila, but prepare Dabawenyos to become better citizens imbued with greater concern for the environment. Davao City prepares
against future floods
Clogged drainage systems, mounting un-segregated garbage and poor implementation of Republic Act 9003 — among the many causes of recent killer floods in Metro Manila and elsewhere — will, hopefully, not be the case in Davao City very soon.
The city has started implementing RA 9003 which mandates garbage recycling, garbage segregation and composting, as well as the ban on open dumpsites, according to city officials Edge Davao interviewed this week.
While the severe widespread flooding has spawned a blaming game between Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Lito Atienza and the Metro Manila mayors, “we do not have any problem with that since Davao City is compliant with RA 9003,” said City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) officer-in-charge Marivic Reyes, who added that the city has embarked on developing an estimated P268-million sanitary landfill project in barangay Carmen in Tugbok district.
Cenro operations division chief Engineer Redgie Aque said that while waiting for the turnover of the sanitary landfill, the city is temporarily using the open dumpsite in barangay Lacson in Calinan district.
Once the project has been turned over to the city government, he said, all the city’s garbage will go directly to the landfill.
Aque said the landfill will feature a more controlled and diagnostic method of disposing garbage by making use of a liner and an impounding pound to keep the area safe.
Reyes said the city has embarked on a 10-year solid waste management plan following the provisions of RA 9003.
A proposed ordinance on the matter by Councilor Leonardo Avila III is on its sixth draft and still being improved upon to provide solid waste management guidance to Dabawenyos.
Solid waste management
Avila said the proposed ordinance provides that the city government should ensure the efficient management of solid waste generated in its jurisdiction through the re-use, recycling and composting of the generated waste. This is stipulated in RA 9003.
The measure, called Davao City Ecological Solid Waste Management Ordinance of 2009, promotes public health and a healthy environment by ensuring the “proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid waste among others.”
“Wala man mi naghunong sa pag implement sa garbage segregation; kanang ginaingon nila na gina mix lang sa mga basurero ang garbage gina-presume man gud namo na nakasegregate na sya pagbutang sa garbage bin ug mga residual waste na lang ang naa sa bins (we have never stopped implementing garbage segregation and we presume that only residual wastes are being placed inside the garbage bins),” Reyes said.
She added that there are barangays that are already implementing the policy on waste segregation. Among them are barangays Hizon in Pampanga and Catalunan Grande. In the meantime, she added, Cenro is continuing its information and education campaign in the barangays.
Reyes admitted that there is still a great need for education and information dissemination to be done to make Dabawenyos comply with the waste segregation law. She said the sanitary landfill, which is being scheduled for turnover very soon, is expected to improve the waste disposal system in the city.
While she admitted that garbage can result in clogged drainage and flooded streets, it is not the one and only cause of flooding. Other factors to consider, she said, include the quality of the drainage system, lack of tree cover in the mountains and heavy rainfall.
Reyes said Cenro is able to collect between 900 to a thousand cubic meters of garbage per day or the equivalent to 300 to 350 tons daily. She said that while the city’s amount of garbage being collected each day is slightly on the rise, this is not constant and can increase or decrease, depending on a lot of factors. including population increase.
Plastic bags and polystyrene foam
Avila said the ordinance seeks to reduce the use of plastic bags and bans the use of polystyrene foam and plastic bags as food containers. Once implemented, the law requires all stores in the city to use only recycled and recyclable paper bags, biodegradable plastics bags, including native and cloth bags and used corrugated boxes or cartons for their customers’ use.
The ordinance further bans, within three years from its approval, the use of plastic bags as well as polystyrene foam as food containers. In lieu of these, the ordinance requires the use of only recyclable, biodegradable and reusable containers.
In consonance with RA 9003, the ordinance mandates waste segregation into biodegradable, recyclable, residual and special waste. And as part of the implementation of the plan, households will be encouraged to undertake backyard composting while establishments, like schools, malls, hotels and resorts and food establishments, will be required to undertake composting of waste generated at source.
With Davao City’s solid waste management plan, the city will not only be well on its way to preventing the sort of floods that recently devastated many parts of Metro Manila, but prepare Dabawenyos to become better citizens imbued with greater concern for the environment. Davao City prepares
against future floods
Clogged drainage systems, mounting un-segregated garbage and poor implementation of Republic Act 9003 — among the many causes of recent killer floods in Metro Manila and elsewhere — will, hopefully, not be the case in Davao City very soon.
The city has started implementing RA 9003 which mandates garbage recycling, garbage segregation and composting, as well as the ban on open dumpsites, according to city officials Edge Davao interviewed this week.
While the severe widespread flooding has spawned a blaming game between Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Lito Atienza and the Metro Manila mayors, “we do not have any problem with that since Davao City is compliant with RA 9003,” said City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) officer-in-charge Marivic Reyes, who added that the city has embarked on developing an estimated P268-million sanitary landfill project in barangay Carmen in Tugbok district.
Cenro operations division chief Engineer Redgie Aque said that while waiting for the turnover of the sanitary landfill, the city is temporarily using the open dumpsite in barangay Lacson in Calinan district.
Once the project has been turned over to the city government, he said, all the city’s garbage will go directly to the landfill.
Aque said the landfill will feature a more controlled and diagnostic method of disposing garbage by making use of a liner and an impounding pound to keep the area safe.
Reyes said the city has embarked on a 10-year solid waste management plan following the provisions of RA 9003.
A proposed ordinance on the matter by Councilor Leonardo Avila III is on its sixth draft and still being improved upon to provide solid waste management guidance to Dabawenyos.
Solid waste management
Avila said the proposed ordinance provides that the city government should ensure the efficient management of solid waste generated in its jurisdiction through the re-use, recycling and composting of the generated waste. This is stipulated in RA 9003.
The measure, called Davao City Ecological Solid Waste Management Ordinance of 2009, promotes public health and a healthy environment by ensuring the “proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid waste among others.”
“Wala man mi naghunong sa pag implement sa garbage segregation; kanang ginaingon nila na gina mix lang sa mga basurero ang garbage gina-presume man gud namo na nakasegregate na sya pagbutang sa garbage bin ug mga residual waste na lang ang naa sa bins (we have never stopped implementing garbage segregation and we presume that only residual wastes are being placed inside the garbage bins),” Reyes said.
She added that there are barangays that are already implementing the policy on waste segregation. Among them are barangays Hizon in Pampanga and Catalunan Grande. In the meantime, she added, Cenro is continuing its information and education campaign in the barangays.
Reyes admitted that there is still a great need for education and information dissemination to be done to make Dabawenyos comply with the waste segregation law. She said the sanitary landfill, which is being scheduled for turnover very soon, is expected to improve the waste disposal system in the city.
While she admitted that garbage can result in clogged drainage and flooded streets, it is not the one and only cause of flooding. Other factors to consider, she said, include the quality of the drainage system, lack of tree cover in the mountains and heavy rainfall.
Reyes said Cenro is able to collect between 900 to a thousand cubic meters of garbage per day or the equivalent to 300 to 350 tons daily. She said that while the city’s amount of garbage being collected each day is slightly on the rise, this is not constant and can increase or decrease, depending on a lot of factors. including population increase.
Plastic bags and polystyrene foam
Avila said the ordinance seeks to reduce the use of plastic bags and bans the use of polystyrene foam and plastic bags as food containers. Once implemented, the law requires all stores in the city to use only recycled and recyclable paper bags, biodegradable plastics bags, including native and cloth bags and used corrugated boxes or cartons for their customers’ use.
The ordinance further bans, within three years from its approval, the use of plastic bags as well as polystyrene foam as food containers. In lieu of these, the ordinance requires the use of only recyclable, biodegradable and reusable containers.
In consonance with RA 9003, the ordinance mandates waste segregation into biodegradable, recyclable, residual and special waste. And as part of the implementation of the plan, households will be encouraged to undertake backyard composting while establishments, like schools, malls, hotels and resorts and food establishments, will be required to undertake composting of waste generated at source.
With Davao City’s solid waste management plan, the city will not only be well on its way to preventing the sort of floods that recently devastated many parts of Metro Manila, but prepare Dabawenyos to become better citizens imbued with greater concern for the environment.
