By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
The Davao City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) will strictly implement the “No Segregation, No Collection” policy as soon as the new garbage compactor trucks and bins are available.
Cenro division chief of the environmental and waste management board Dolly Remojo said in yesterday’s I-Speak Media Forum, all households in the barangays will be required to use clear garbage bags in disposing their wastes for an easy identification whether or not they observed proper waste separation.
“If collectors see that the garbage is not segregated it will not be collected,” she said.
Remojo said that a strict implementation to segregate the wastes is imperative because there will be assigned compactors that will collect biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes.
She said the Cenro will also impose a schedule on when the biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes will be collected.
Remojo said the city already received the 12 brand new compactors last March but they are still waiting for the 10 old trucks which were re-manufactured and these “are good as brand new”.
“We are just only for the two which are still being re-manufactured so that they can deliver to the city together the 10 trucks,” she said.
She said the Cenro is set to use all the compactors along with the 13,000 brand new garbage bins on May which will be distributed to the 110 barangays in the city.
Remojo said the Cenro currently conducted an orientation to all the barangay officials in the city started last April 15 and will end on April 29. This is for the proper handling of the bins and maintaining the cleanliness of their barangay.
Remojo also explained the reason why the use of compactors and bins are delayed.
She said the bidding of the equipment was delayed since they were outsourced overseas.
Earlier, Cenro head Elisa Madrazo said that the compactors and the bins are supposed to arrive on the last quarter of 2015 but these only arrived last month.
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