A mini cargo multicab that was used to collect garbage now stands along with the piles of uncollected garbage in barangay Guizo.
(CDN Photo/Junjie Mendoza)
More than 50 sacks of uncollected garbage awaits motorists and visitors passing through A.S. Fortuna Extension in barangay Guizo, Mandaue City.
The bulk of the garbage, mostly plastic items, are found within walking distance from the Guizo barangay hall.
Guizo barangay chairman Jesus Neri Jr. said they don’t have garbage trucks to collect the trash from these areas.
To reduce the smell, residents covered the garbage with a tarpaulin.
“Nanawag mi sa Mandaue aron magpa-kolekta lang pud pero usahay dili maabot (We’ve called Mandaue City to also collect our garbage but sometimes no one arrives),” Neri said.
Fixed schedules
“There were times that we told the residents to bring out their garbage, but when no one comes we have no choice but to leave that there,” he said.
Engr. Ricardo Mendoza, chief of Mandaue City Hall’s Solid Waste Management Board, said the garbage trucks run on fixed schedules to collect trash from the city’s 27 barangays.
He said it is each barangay’s responsibility to collect the garbage of their constituents.
In a meeting with some of the barangays, Mendoza said garbage trucks usually prioritize the collection of garbage from commercial firms.
“Instead of the households, they first collect garbage from the companies. Since they have recyclables, they’ll bring these to the junkshops and not to the landfill. It takes them so long to back for the household,” Mendoza said.
“We told the drivers to collect in the afternoon for companies and prioritize the households,” he said.
Mendoza said they tag every household who turn over their garbage to collectors in order to distinguish them from the residents who dump garbage anywhere.
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