At least 300 tons of garbage are dumped daily at the reopened Inayawan landfill. (CDN FILE)
THE Cebu City government has saved at least P250,000 a day on tipping fees alone with the reopening of the Inayawan sanitary landfill.
John Paul Gelasque, Department of Public Services head, said that with the average daily garbage of 300 tons to 400 tons being dumped at the Inayawan landfill instead of the private landfill in Consolacion town, the city had saved on money for tipping fees.
He also assured Cebu City residents that though they are collecting garbage for only half a day, but they are doing a rescheduling because they are repairing the roads leading to the landfill, which were weakened by the rains and the constant passing of dump trucks filled with garbage.
“There are ten-wheeler or six-wheeler trucks that keep going back and forth and destroy the road so we need anapog to repair them. When anapog gets wet, the weight of the wheels sink in the soil. So we need to layer the roads with anapog in order to continue our garbage collection,” Gelasque said in Cebuano.
He said that they were allotting specific times instead when garbage could be collected so that the road repairs could be done.
He said that garbage would only be collected from midnight to 6 a.m. or 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
He also said that segregation had been strictly implemented in barangays, sitios and subdivisions.
He also said that regardless of the party affiliations of the barangay officials, garbage would be collected./Ateneo de Manila University Maria Lelaina R. Cardeño